On Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 1225 Hours (12:25 PM PDT), eleven Companies of Los Angeles Firefighters, including Heavy Rescue and Urban Search and Rescue Units, two LAFD Helicopters, one EMS District Captain and five LAFD Rescue Ambulances, as well as two Chief Officer Command Teams, all under the direction of Assistant Chief Dean Cathey responded to a reported Aircraft Down and on fire in the Santa Monica Mountains near 3641 North Glenridge Drive in Studio City.
Citizen reports and a plume of smoke led Firefighters to burning vegetation in a steep ravine where the small privately owned fixed-wing single-propeller-driven aircraft impacted the heavily wooded hillside.
The vintage two-passenger ex-military plane, a 1956 North American T-28C
