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Reports are just coming out now regarding a Cessna 210 that almost landed with its wheels up. "My heart was just pounding. The guy was 20 to 30 feet above the ground," Carlos Rodriguez, an Ontario Airport air traffic controller, said who was informed by a Southwest Airlines pilot who first saw the Cessna trying to land. Rodriguez then quickly informed another controller, Bruce Bradigan who told the pilot to abort landing. The pilot, William R. Otto, has been flying private planes for 30 years and didn't use his checklist for landing. As he told the LA Times: "I made a mistake."

At least four people were critically injured after a twin-engine Cessna 310 airplane crashed in the 500 block of West Cypress in Compton this afternoon.

Two Sunday afternoon small-aircraft flights turned deadly yesterday when the planes collided mid-air over Corona, sending bodies and debris flying through the air and onto parking lots below and killing five people.