A 38-year-old Woodland Hills pilot was killed when a small plane crashed Saturday evening, April 29, in a hilly area near Mulholland Drive and south of Sherman Oaks, authorities said.The single-engine Cessna C172 was found above the 3000 block of Beverly Glen Circle around 11 p.m., the Los Angeles Fire Department said. The pilot was the only person aboard the aircraft, the Federal Aviation Administration said.He was identified as Alon Inditzky.
The aircraft’s wreckage ended up above a home on a steep hillside that includes a large water tank, which was not damaged. The area is about eight miles southeast of Van Nuys Airport.
The aircraft had departed from Bermuda Dunes Airport and was flying to Camarillo Airport, said Jennifer Gabris, a National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman.
For reasons that were not available Monday, the aircraft diverted to Van Nuys Airport before it lost contact with air-traffic control around 8 p.m.
Crews had been searching the mountainous, foggy terrain before identifying an emergency beacon signal that was sent.
FAA air traffic controllers at Van Nuys Airport, Burbank Airport and Los Angeles International Airport, as well as the U.S. Air Force and the pilot’s cellular telephone carrier, helped to try to pinpoint the missing aircraft.The single-engine Cessna C172 was found above the 3000 block of Beverly Glen Circle around 11 p.m., the Los Angeles Fire Department said. The pilot was the only person aboard the aircraft, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
He was identified as Alon Inditzky.
The aircraft’s wreckage ended up above a home on a steep hillside that includes a large water tank, which was not damaged. The area is about eight miles southeast of Van Nuys Airport.
The aircraft had departed from Bermuda Dunes Airport and was flying to Camarillo Airport, said Jennifer Gabris, a National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman.
For reasons that were not available Monday, the aircraft diverted to Van Nuys Airport before it lost contact with air-traffic control around 8 p.m.
Crews had been searching the mountainous, foggy terrain before identifying an emergency beacon signal that was sent.
FAA air traffic controllers at Van Nuys Airport, Burbank Airport and Los Angeles International Airport, as well as the U.S. Air Force and the pilot’s cellular telephone carrier, helped to try to pinpoint the missing aircraft.
Source: dailynews
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