east of the Santa Paula Airport. The accident took place around 12:30 p.m. on a Sunday. Mares and another passerby, Gabriel Pacheco, wound up working together to rescue Pollock from the burning plane.

The crash east of Santa Paula Airport was reported shortly before 12:30 p.m. Sunday, according to the Ventura County Fire Department. No passengers were aboard the small plane when it went down in ...

Between the river and the highway is runway 22 of Santa Paula Airport, one of the most enduring and colorful of America’s old-time, small-town airfields. But Santa Paula Airport was actually ...