Yep, definitely pancaked in. Amazing no cars were involved, the 405 is nearly always jammed to the brim.
“Amazing no cars were involved”
Some of the reasons when a small aircraft is going down in a highly populated area they will look for a freeway to set it down are they will take advantage of the wide, straight road and try to stay up long enough to get the drivers to see them above them, panic, and break giving them room.
Better chance there of not hitting someone with the lane dividers between oncoming and outgoing traffic, multi lanes, no crosswalks, or beside the road pedestrians. Definitely beats trying to set it down on small road surrounded by houses, schools, or playing kids.
Forced landings are very often a crap shoot at best.
rwood
If this happened at 4:08 pm on Monday through Friday the plane would have crashed into my car. Take that way home everyday.