A pilot who crash-landed a two-seater airplane on Tuesday, Oct. 21, in Long Beach’s Heartwell Park , injuring a woman on the ground, had radioed to the Long Beach Airport tower that he had lost power three miles east of the airfield and declared an emergency, according to air traffic control audio obtained by the Southern California News Group.

A tower air traffic controller asked the pilot which runway he wanted to try to land on, but the pilot’s initial response was unclear.

“I don’t think I’m going to make it,” the pilot said. “I’m going to pick a field here and land this deal.”

Minutes later, the tower communicator asked another pilot in the area if he or she had eyes on the aircraft and whether it landed on a nearby golf course.

But that pilot said he did not see the aircraft on

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