# NTSB WPR25LA084: Cessna P210N, N4626K, Prescott, AZ, January 18, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Class 3 · Limited · Preliminary report
- Date: January 18, 2025, 12:10 local (19:10 UTC)
- Place: Prescott, AZ · Adjacent to southbound Hwy 89
- Coordinates: 34.642606, -112.43215
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.6426&lon=-112.4321&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Approach-VFR pattern final: Loss of engine power (partial)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/342)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 2 uninjured
- Status: Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class: Class 3
- NTSB office: Western Pacific Region
- Parties: Federal Aviation Administration
- NTSB case key (mKey): 199618
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=WPR25LA084
- NTSB preliminary report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/199618/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR25LA084

## Preliminary report

On January 18, 2025, about 1210 Mountain standard time, a Cessna P210N, N4626K, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Prescott, Arizona. The flight instructor and student pilot were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. The student pilot reported that following a local instructional flight, the tower controller cleared them to enter the airport traffic pattern for runway 3R. As the airplane was about 200 ft above ground level (agl), the student noticed that his rate of descent was excessive and increased the throttle setting; however, the engine power setting remained unchanged. The student pilot informed the flight instructor about the lack of engine response and the flight instructor verified that the throttle setting was full forward, switched the fuel selector valve from RIGHT to LEFT, and set the mixture to full rich. The instructor then assumed control and elected to execute a forced landing. About 50 ft agl, the flight instructor reduced the throttle to idle, moved mixture to idle cut off, and turned the fuel selector valve to OFF. Subsequently, the airplane landed hard and subsequently bounced multiple times before it slid off the side of an embankment, just short of a roadway. The right-wing was substantially damaged. The airplane was recovered to a secure facility for further examination.

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Approach-VFR pattern final: Loss of engine power (partial)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/342) (defining event); cases with it: [Cessna P210N, 11 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/342/sequence.md?model=2073454), [All aircraft, 1,858 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/342/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N4626K](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N4626K), registered now, S/N P21000244, built 1979 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA P210N
- Registry model: [Cessna P210N](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-p210n) (registry code 2073454) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Continental TSIO-520 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-520-series) (registry code 17040, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: P21000244
- Year built: 1979
- Airframe hours: 3222.7
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Instructional, Part 91
- Operator: Wyeth Family Trust
- Registered owner: Wyeth Family Trust
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: 100 hour, January 12, 2025, 1.5 hours before
- Destination: Same as departure
- Flight plan: VFR
- Airport: PRC, Prescott Rgnl/Ernest A Love Fld, runway 03R/21L, 7,619 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment: Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Visibility: 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 50 °F
- Observed at: KPRC, 1 nm away

## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Incident 20250118000369I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20250118000369I), Jan 18, 2025: Cessna P210N, Prescott, AZ, Substantial damage. On January 18, 2025, at 12:08 (local time), aircraft [privacy data omitted], experienced an off-field landing near Prescott airport (prc) Arizona. The…

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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