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A woman in California was injured when a small airplane crash-landed in a Long Beach park during an emergency landing attempt, officials reported.
According to the Long Beach Fire Department’s Facebook update, the incident happened around 4 p.m. on a soccer field at Heartwell Park.
“Upon arrival, units discovered a small aircraft resting on its belly with its landing gears broken, though the fuselage remained intact. During the landing, the plane struck a pedestrian in the park,” the department noted.

A woman was hit by the aircraft on Tuesday as it made an emergency landing on a soccer field in California. (Eric Quintanar/Fox News Digital)
Emergency personnel assisted in safely extracting the pilot, identified as an elderly man, from the downed plane.
The pilot and the woman, who is in her 40s, were transported to a hospital in moderate but stable condition.

First responders helped rescue the pilot from the aircraft. (Eric Quintanar/Fox News Digital)
Preliminary information indicates the plane was headed back to Compton after a stop in French Valley when it went down, the fire department said.
The pilot of the “possibly experimental aircraft” may have been attempting to make it to Long Beach Airport for an emergency landing, about a mile and a half from where the plane crashed, KTLA reported.

Both the pilot and the woman were taken to the hospital in moderate condition. (Eric Quintanar/Fox News Digital)
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.