It was a scary scene at a busy California park. Nearly two weeks after a plane went down at Huntington Beach, a small plane was forced to make an emergency landing in a soccer field.

According to the Long Beach Fire Department in a Facebook post, the startling incident happened on October 21. Authorities confirmed that the pilot and a woman in her 40s had to be taken to the hospital after bringing the plane down.

The incident happened at the busy Heartwell Park. During the emergency landing, the plane suffered “broken landing gears.”

“The plane’s fuselage was intact. When the plane landed, it collided with a pedestrian in the park,” the statement read. “Units assisted with removing the pilot, an elderly male, from the airplane and transported him via paramedics to a local area hospital.

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