Emergency landing in busy park leaves two injured in California PHOTO

A woman was injured after a small plane landed in a busy park in Long Beach, California, authorities said.

The aircraft came down in a soccer field at Heartwell Park around 4 p.m. local time on October 21, US media reports, citing the Long Beach Fire Department.

“When units arrived, they found a small aircraft resting on its belly with broken landing gear,” the department said in a statement, adding that the fuselage remained largely intact.

The plane struck a woman in her 40s who was on the field at the time. She was taken to the hospital along with the pilot — an elderly man — who was rescued from the cockpit by firefighters.

Both the woman and the pilot sustained moderate injuries but are in stable condition, officials said.

Authorities are investigating the cause of the crash.

By Tamilla Hasanova