Train smashes into crashed plane seconds after pilot is rescued – video

Police in Los Angeles pulled a pilot from a plane that had crashed on to rail tracks near Whiteman airport in Pacoima just moments before it was hit by an incoming train.

Video showed the train ramming into the wreckage full force, sending debris flying across a fence and nearly hitting bystanders.

The pilot was treated at hospital for cuts and bruisesl and no one on board the train was injured, local media reported