{"id":67947,"date":"2015-11-12T23:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T07:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=67947"},"modified":"2015-11-13T01:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T09:18:36","slug":"2-injured-in-small-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/11\/12\/2-injured-in-small-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"2 injured in small plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

LANCASTER – Two people were injured when a small plane crash landed in the Lake Hughes area Thursday night, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Firefighters were called about 8 p.m. to the area of Maxwell and Lake Hughes roads, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.<\/p>\n

The Beechcraft BE36 was en route from Bakersfield to Fox Field in Lancaster when it went down in a field about 20 miles west of its destination, according to Ian Gregor of the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n

Two people aboard the plane sustained injuries, county fire department Supervising Dispatcher Michael Pittman said.<\/p>\n

Both were flown to a hospital from the scene, which was inaccessible by ground units, according to Cmdr. Mike Parker of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.<\/p>\n

The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n

The plane’s pilot used his cellphone to notify authorities of the crash, Parker said.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE<\/span>: The 70-year-old male pilot and 74-year-old male passenger sustained non-life-threatening injuries, and both are doing well, according to a news release<\/a> from the Sheriff\u2019s Information Bureau.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The crash scene was secured by Palmdale Sheriff\u2019s Station patrol deputies pending the response of the Sheriff\u2019s Department Aero Bureau and FAA investigators, who were scheduled to arrive Friday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LANCASTER – Two people were injured when a small plane crash landed in the Lake Hughes area Thursday night, authorities said. Firefighters were called about 8 p.m. to the area of Maxwell and Lake Hughes roads, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The Beechcraft BE36 was en route from Bakersfield to Fox Field […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":67948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}