Bottoms up: pilot escapes with minor injuries after plane plunges into hangar

A Cessna 172 nosedived into a roof with its tail sticking straight up after a landing and takeoff practice went wrong

A pilot escaped with only minor injuries after a single-engine plane nose dived into the roof of a hangar on Monday at a southern California airport, authorities said.

The crash happened around 2.30pm while the pilot of the Cessna 172 was “practicing landings and takeoffs” at Long Beach airport, south of Los Angeles, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.