Fuel-flow levels dropped and the engine throttled moments before a two-seater plane made an emergency landing at a Long Beach park last month, seriously injuring a pedestrian and the pilot, according to a preliminary report from federal officials released Wednesday, Nov. 19.

Around 4 p.m. on Oct. 20, an “experimental, amateur-built Rutan Long-EZ,” a homebuilt two-seater plane, landed on a soccer field at Heartwell Park, seriously injuring a pedestrian and the pilot, according to the National Transportation Safety Board report.

The plane had traveled from Compton-Woodley Airport to French Valley Airport in Murrieta as part of a two-airplane flight and took off around 3:30 p.m. to head back to Compton, the report said.

As he flew to Corona, the pilot told investigators the flight and engi

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