Woman escapes parked car struck by plane in Calif.
BURBANK, Calif. A small airplane crashed into a parked car near Bob Hope Airport Friday evening, seconds after a woman interior the vehicle dictum the plane approach and fled.
Three people aboard a small airplane were injured, authorities said.
The Cessna 172 single-engine plane snagged some power lines and a utility native of poland before hitting the parked car.
“A lady in her car saw the plane and got out and ran,” said Jorge Martinez, Burbank’s deputy fire marshal. “She ran and fell and scraped up her knees.”
Authorities didn’t release the phrase of the woman.
Two men and a woman who were aboard the plane were hospitalized with cool injuries, Martinez said. Their names have not been released.
The crash occurred near a residential neighborhood and independent businesses - about a thousand feet from the airport’s runway. The airplane was landing whenever it overshot the runway and crashed, declared Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor.
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