The pilot and passenger of the Cessna aircraft got out before firefighters arrived and declined to be taken to a hospital.

As the plane was approaching the airport, about a half mile from the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area crash site in Sherman Oaks, a distress signal was sent out, saying they could not make the airport.

A small plane crashed in Sherman Oaks Thursday morning, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The aircraft, reported to be a Cessna, landed upside down on a flat dirt area near the Sepulveda basin. The crash happened on the 15000 block of Burbank Boulevard.

A Cessna aircraft made an emergency landing and flipped upside down, with both people on board safely exiting the plane.