A personal jet crashed Tuesday night after touchdown at Hawthorne Municipal Airport.
Firefighters had been known as at 6:32 p.m. to a report of a airplane crash on the airport, mentioned Ed Pickett, a supervising dispatcher with the Los Angeles County Hearth Division.
The Embraer Phenom 300, with capability for 11 passengers, had seven folks on board, together with the pilot, mentioned Henry Narvaez, a fireplace division spokesperson.
The jet touched down however didn’t come to a cease the place it usually would, failed to show round and crashed into the airport’s west perimeter fence, Narvaez mentioned.
All seven aboard the airplane had been in a position to extricate themselves by the point firefighters arrived, he mentioned, and there have been no accidents.
Images circulating on Twitter present a jet with its entrance touchdown gear visibly broken. The plane is tilted ahead and resting on its nostril.
A search of the tail quantity exhibits that the airplane is registered to Skystallion, based mostly in San Francisco.