New video released Friday by John Wayne Airport shows the exact moment a small twin-engine plane crashed on the 405 Freeway in Santa Ana in June and burst into a fireball. In a frantic call to the airport’s control tower, Pisano told controllers, “Hey, we got a mayday! We got a mayday!”The tower told Pisano he was cleared to land but then told him, “Your gear appears to be up.”“Yeah, I know. A witness in a car traveling north on the freeway recorded video of the sequence of events that followed. The debris field was about 150 feet long and crossed onto both sides of the freeway, according to the report.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 28, 2017 22:24 UTC