On the evening of May 18th,\u00a0 Long Beach Fire Department land and sea companies responded to a report of two small aircraft that had collided over the ocean just past the breakwater.\u00a0 They were joined in their search by the US Coast guard, LBPD, LAFD, and LA County fire units.\u00a0 LBFD\u00a0 boat 15 was the first to locate one of two debris fields which proved to be the point of impact in the water and proof that the report was correct.\u00a0 This began an extensive search of the area in an attempt to locate possible survivors.\u00a0 The initial call was placed by another pilot who witnessed the crash.\u00a0 The intense search continued through the night and into the following day.\u00a0 Sadly, by the afternoon of the following day, all hope of rescue was abandoned and the grim reality set in that all people on board the two planes\u00a0were killed in the accident.\u00a0 The mission then became a recovery operation in an effort to recover the deceased and the wreckage of the two planes.\u00a0 Both planes flew out of Long Beach airport to an area frequented by pilots in training.\u00a0 The cause of the tragic accident is under investigation.\u00a0 There were no other reports of deaths or injuries to citizens or first responders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the evening of May 18th,\u00a0 Long Beach Fire Department land and sea companies responded to a report of two small aircraft that had collided over the ocean just past the breakwater.\u00a0 They were joined in their search by the US Coast guard, LBPD, LAFD, and LA County fire units.\u00a0 LBFD\u00a0 boat 15 was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}