- Date
- September 4, 2026, 12:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Carlsbad, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5447LCessna 152
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20260904011839A
- Case key
- 203756
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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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
- N5447L
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284317
- Built
- 1980
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Pinnacle Aviation Services Inc
- Registered owner
- Pinnacle Aviation Services Inc
- Departed
- SBD · San Bernardino, CA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- CRQ · McClellan-Palomar Airport
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B
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
- 240° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.94 inHg
- Observed at
- KCRQ
- METAR
- METAR KCRQ 041853Z 24007KT 10SM CLR 23/14 A2994 RMK AO2 SLP135 T02280144
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N5447L · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.