Santa Monica Airport: Plane Crashes into Hangar

A plane crashed near the Santa Monica airport in Southern California on Sunday night.
Santa Monica Airport: Plane Crashes into Hangar
Jack Phillips
9/29/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

A plane crashed at the Santa Monica airport hangar in Southern California on Sunday night.

On Twitter, users posted images of the crash.

“Looks like a terrible accident has happened at Santa Monica airport. I hope I’m wrong,” resident Matt Ross wrote.

Smoke was seen rising from the airport.

CBS Los Angeles reported that the FAA confirmed there was a crash.

Citing the FAA, NBC reported that it was a Cessna Citation that went off the right side of the runway after it landed at the Santa Monica Airport after 6 p.m.

It is unclear if there were any injuries.

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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