---
title: "Pilot Pulled From Crashed Plane Just Before Train Obliterates It In Incredible Body Cam Video"
description: "The dramatic rescue came just an instant before a Metrolink train barreled through the stricken Cessna."
date: "2022-01-09"
modified: "2022-01-09"
authors:
  - name: "Tyler Rogoway"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.twz.com/authors/tyler-rogoway.md"
url: "https://www.twz.com/43810/cops-pull-man-from-crashed-plane-just-before-train-obliterates-it-in-insane-body-cam-video"
categories:
  - "Americas"
  - "Around The Globe"
  - "Civil Aviation"
  - "News & Features"
  - "U.S. Homeland"
tags:
  - "Cessna 172"
  - "emergency landing"
  - "LAPD"
  - "Pacoima Airport"
  - "Pilot"
  - "rescue"
  - "Train"
  - "Train Tracks"
---

# Pilot Pulled From Crashed Plane Just Before Train Obliterates It In Incredible Body Cam Video

![](<https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-twz/content/2022/01/Plane-Crash-Tracks-Rescue-LAP.jpg>)
*www.twz.com*

If you were unfortunate enough to scroll around your social media channels this weekend you probably realized that it was [one that featured some](<https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/1479915592970768384?s=20>) truly [bizarre catastrophes](<https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/1479915273289302019?s=20>). But the one that happened this afternoon just after 2 PM local time near Whiteman Airport in Pacoima, California really takes the cake—or the locomotive in this case.

A Cessna 172, registered N8056L, made an emergency landing (or lost control while landing) and ended up on railroad tracks between Osborne Street and San Fernando Road next to the airport. The injured pilot was pulled from the stricken Cessna by police and bystanders just an instant before a Metrolink train plowed through the aircraft, shattering it and sending pieces of it flying. LAPD has posted absolutely chilling bodycam footage of the rescue, which came in just the nick of time:

https://twitter.com/_/status/1480363436311670784

Other videos from the scene are also remarkably dramatic, like this one from [Luis Jimenez](<https://www.luisjimenezmusic.com>), who goes by @ComposerLuis on Twitter, among others:

https://twitter.com/_/status/1480322035326730240

https://youtube.com/embed/kHUFJfRMaoc

The pilot was rushed to the hospital and it isn't clear at this time what condition they are in, but the fact that they made it out alive is something of a miracle in itself.

![message-editor%2F1641783851210-airportcrashmap.jpg](<https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor%2F1641783851210-airportcrashmap.jpg>)
*Scene of the incident. , *Google Earth**

Absolutely amazing heroism by everyone involved!

*Contact the author: Tyler@thedrive.com*

## Author
Tyler’s passion is the study of military technology, strategy, as well as foreign policy, and he has fostered a dominant voice on those topics in the defense and national security space. Tyler was the creator of the hugely popular defense site *Foxtrot Alpha* before developing *TWZ*, which he continues to lead as the Editor-In-Chief to this day.

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