Shocking video shows plane crash on Los Angeles beach that killed former Santa Monica mayor Rex Minter

Io Dodds

23 December 2022 at 12:47 pm

Rex Minter’s single-engine Cessna ditches in the Santa Monica surf on Thursday 22 December (CBS Los Angeles)

A veteran Los Angeles politician has died after his plane made a disastrous emergency landing on the city’s beach.

Rex H Minter, a former mayor of Santa Monica and Los Angeles County judge born in 1927, was killed on Thursday when his small Cessna plane ditched on the seafront just after 3pm.

Video footage showed the Cessna attempting to land in the surf and then flipping forwards onto its back. Its pilot had told air traffic controllers that he wouldn't be able to reach a nearby airport because something was wrong with the engine.

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