House Painters Save Pilot After Plane Crashes In Backyard

One very fortunate pilot....very nice rescuers....and would like to know the NTSB findings. Just hope it's not another "probable cause unknown" determination.

Just out of curiosity, what was there first, the runway or the homes? It is was the runway, which I suspect, and you build a home at the approach end, and then you complain about aircraft safety? If this is the case, it really sounds like some people have an intelligence issue……….

Which was built first? The airport or the homes? Quite a few years back, people were choosing to buy homes under the flight pattern of the Seattle/Tacoma airport. After buying their homes, they raised a huge kerfuffel about the noise. Big dummies had to know they would hear the planes. Or, maybe they expected those big planes to cut their engines before landing and silently glide down? Same thing around McChord AIR FORCE BASE. Folks must not have understood it meant planes would land & take off 24 hours a day????

And I am sure the homes were not there when the airport was built. I love IDIOTS that build homes near an airport that has been in operation (sometimes for years) and then complain because "Planes are noisy, planes are landing and taking off, it disturbs my peace and quiet". Where do MORONS come from? People that buy right next to airports!!!!!!

Gosh, why does this sound like we have ANOTHER federal agency (FAA) run by incompetent FOOLS? Conversely, how stupid do you have to be to remain living in the path of an in-coming airplane that many times is twice the size of your HOUSE? Santa Monica needs new people at the helm of its government; it's up to the VOTERS to see that this is accomplished, post-haste! It really isn't that hard to do, considering what happened. March on Town Hall and say," Fix it, or vacate your office"! That goes for the big shot at the FAA also. His salary and perks are ten times bigger than yours. Give him an alternative.

The Socialist Republic of Santa Monica has been trying to close the airport for years. They can't because there is federal money that they accepted. The article is right in line with Tom Hayden/Jane Fonda/rent control from 30+ years ago. B-25s flew out of that airport during WW-II long before the existing houses were there. Long live Santa Monica Airport!

As a Christian private pilot, I say this pilot was very fortunate to have suffered only a broken leg, etc. I feel for the painter who was hit by flying debris.

Just last Wednesday evening, I spoke briefly to a young lady at our Church, named "Monica", and told her I'd remembered her name by thinking of "Santa Monica, California". And Now this Cessna 172 crashes in Santa Monica. I don't believe in "coincidences", I believe it is spiritual warfare between God and Satan.

bet the airport was there "long " before the houses. they knew there was an airpot next door when they moved in. keep the airport, make the home owners MOVE!!!!

What does a "fast-landing jet"possibly have to do with a Cessna 172 which just creeps around the sky?

The same thing happened to us with our gravel pit. The pit was started in 1947, in the 60s and 70s people built houses all arround the out side of it then bitched about the noise. Instead of starting at 6:00AM we had to wait till 8:00AM to start any of the equipment up, shut down by noon on Saturday and don't even think of any thing on Sunday.