Pilot crashes into sister's house

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Photograph caption dated January 2, 1987 reads, "Joseph D'Angelo tells how his brother-in-law, on a wing and prayer, crashed plane... and survived."The second crash involved pilot Robert Gillon, 45, and his girlfriend, Delapina Magalina, 18, both of Los Angeles, who intended to pay a surprise visit to Gillon’s sister, Christine D’Angelo in San Dimas, New Year’s Day morning.It was indeed a surprise, said D’Angelo, who was asleep with her husband and four children, ages 5 to 17, when the single-engine Cessna 152 scraped the side of their home at 1337 Camino del Sur. Awakening to a loud crash about 10 a.m., her husband, Joseph, went to investigate, only to be told by a neighbor that an airplane was wedged nose-down in the side yard.“There was no damage to our house or the house next door, except for a scrape on the wall,” Christine D’Angelo said, adding that the plane had plowed into a dirt-banked retaining wall and had come to rest in a space no wider than eight feet.