Pilot says ‘Hey, we got a mayday!,’ then crashes on freeway

This photo shows firefighters standing by the wreckage of a twin-engine prop jet after it crashed on Interstate 405, just short of the runway at John Wayne Orange County Airport. LOS ANGELES - The pilot of a small twin-engine plane that dropped out of the sky and exploded in flames on a busy freeway near a Southern California airport Friday morning, injuring the two people aboard, declared a mayday and told air traffic controllers he had lost an engine before the crash.

Plane crashes in flames on California freeway, 2 injured

A small twin-engine plane dropped out of the sky and exploded in flames on a busy freeway near a Southern California airport Friday morning, injuring the two people aboard but clipping only one passing vehicle, a fire official said. The Cessna 310 aircraft crashed on Interstate 405, just short of a runway at John Wayne Airport in Costa Mesa around 9:30 a.m., said Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

A student was punished for filming his professor’s anti-Trump rant. Then came the backlash.

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