Pilot pulls off emergency landing in San Gabriel riverbed in Long Beach

The pilot of a single-engine plane experienced a technical malfunction in the skies over Long Beach on Tuesday, April 14, and had to make an emergency landing in a concrete bed of the San Gabriel River.
The man operating a single-engine Avions R2160 reported engine trouble, and managed to land the aircraft shortly before 7:40 p.m., in a portion of the channel just north of Wardlow Road, Long Beach Police Lt. Megan Zabel said. The stretch of concrete riverbed that served as a makeshift airstrip w