Pilot killed in fiery crash near Pacoima home while approaching Whiteman Airport

KTLA ^ | 11/12/20 | Tracy Bloom, Mark Kono, Lauren Lyster, additional reporting by Nidia Becerra

[eyeamok]

The plane appeared to have hit multiple parked vehicles, which caught fire, Sky5 aerial video showed. LAFD initially said the flames had spread to a structure, but later stated that the blaze made it as far as the vegetation and trees, and that crews were able to protect the residence.

[eyeamok]

I am here at WHP, this was a Cessna 206 Civil Air Patrol plane that was about 200 yards short of the runway, looked like he stalled it low and slow.

[willk]

In the 1980’s I used to sit in my car doing paperwork watching planes land there.

[Vaquero]

Why’s it gotta be a a White Man’s airport

[eyeamok]

because it is in the middle of Pacoima and Arleta which was 98% Black in the 60’s and 70’s

[ought-six]

“because it is in the middle of Pacoima and Arleta which was 98% Black in the 60’s and 70’s.”

I remember Pacoima being heavily Mexican in the 1970s.

[doc11355]

I am here at WHP, this was a Cessna 206 Civil Air Patrol plane that was about 200 yards short of the runway, looked like he stalled it low and slow.

This likely was a stall/spin on final, one of the greatest killers in general aviation.

Stall/Spin Prevention

[doc11355]

I am here at WHP, this was a Cessna 206 Civil Air Patrol plane that was about 200 yards short of the runway, looked like he stalled it low and slow.

Corrected link:

This likely was a stall/spin on final, one of the greatest killers in general aviation.

Stall/Spin Prevention

[LurkedLongEnough]

This makes me think of all the used car lots of useless cars left over from the flooding and hurricanes in the past few years. Insurance issue?

[Osage Orange]

Huh?

[SamAdams76]

I too used to spend hours in my car doing paperwork during the 1980s by a small airport. This one was up in Tewksbury, MA. I think they ended up building a condo community there.

Those were the days. Before cell phones. I would visit clients all day and then spend an hour or two between about 3 to 5pm getting my paperwork done in the car while listing to the Chuck Harder Show while private planes landing passed just 50 feet over my car.

Nice memories.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.