- Date
- August 5, 2026, 11:17 local (18:17 UTC)
- Place
- Perris, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N34852Cessna 177B
- Defining event
- Maneuvering: Loss of engine power (total)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 203540
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Preliminary report
What NTSB knew early in the investigation. It may change in the final report.
On August 5, 2026, at 1117 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 177B, N34852, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Perris, California. The flight instructor and student pilot were not injured. The airplane was being operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. According to both pilots, after completing a series of maneuvers, the engine lost power while positioning the airplane to practice S-turns at 1,500 ft AGL. Attempts to restart the engine were unsuccessful so the flight instructor performed an emergency landing to a field. During landing the airplane struck vegetation and nosed over, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing and fuselage. The pilots reported 44 gallons of fuel onboard at takeoff and they had been airborne about 1.5 hrs when the engine quit.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N34852
- Reported as
- Cessna 177B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17702046
- Built
- 1973
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Pride Electric Enterprises
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- RAL · Riverside, CA
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot, Stall warning system
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- KAJO, 13 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KAJO 051756Z AUTO 29007KT 10SM CLR 28/18 A2995 RMK AO2 SLP136 6//// T02780178 10278 20167 50004 $