When air traffic control warns the pilot that “landing on the beach will be at your own risk,' the pilot replied, “I wish I had another choice.'
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — A former mayor of Santa Monica, California, died after a small plane crash-landed and flipped upside down on a beach in the coastal California community, authorities said.
Rex Minter was a passenger in the single-engine Cessna that took off from Santa Monica Airport about 3 p.m. Thursday en route to Malibu. The pilot was taken to a hospital.Sadly, former SM mayor and judge Rex Minter was the passenger in the plane that crashed on the beach south of the Pier this afternoon. He has passed away. I have spoken with his family and relayed the City’s deepest condolences to them.
In a recording played on KTTV-TV, air traffic control warns the pilot that “landing on the beach will be at your own risk.”Video showed the plane descending for a beach landing but hitting the water at the shoreline and flipping over south of. Firefighters removed two people from the plane, one of them in cardiac arrest, authorities said.
Minter was elected to the Santa Monica City Council in 1955 and served as mayor between 1963 and 1967, later serving as city attorney for Arcadia and as a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge,
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