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A small plane took a terrifying tumble onto a packed California beach, clipping a young boy, authorities said.
Beachgoers celebrating Independence Day scrambled for their lives on Saturday afternoon as the single-engine aircraft dropped from the sky, a cell phone video showed.
The plane hit the sand and flipped over, colliding with a 12-year-old as it rolled, according to local reports.
Witnesses claimed the plane was carrying an advertising banner, but ditched it when the plane began to struggle.
“I knew something was wrong,” Albert Perez told KUSI-TV. “I told my kids to run, pushed my wife down in the sand. It flew 10 feet over our heads. It hit the sand, flipped over, hit a kid in the head with the wing and three other people dove down. It skidded into the water. The pilot got out of the water, and the father came and picked the kid up who was bleeding from the left side of his head.”
The 23-year-old pilot was able to walk away from the crash, but the 12-year-old boy was taken to a hospital with a gash on his head, the station reported.
Carlsbad police and firefighters responded along with a hazardous materials team to check for any dangerous fluids.
Carlsbad city officials declined to provide any more information.
Courtesy of nydailynews.com
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