UPDATED: BANNING: More details emerge after plane ends up on its nose after “hard landing” at local airport

April 25, 2017 Trevor Montgomery

UPDATE: April 26, 4:45 p.m.

BANNING – Banning police and Federal Aviation Administration officials are investigating after a plane suffered a “hard landing” at Banning Municipal Airport Monday, April 24. The crash happened about 1:40 p.m.

The pilot and sole occupant of the single-engine, 1981 Cessna 210 aircraft at the time of the crash was not seriously injured, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor. The plane, which has seating for six, is registered to Mvmt Consulting LLC in Salem, Oregon.

Officials have not released the name or age of the pilot.

Witnesses said the plane landed just short of the runway, clipping a fence as the aircraft descended. The impact with the fence reportedly collapsed the airplane’s front landing gear, causing the plane to come to rest after flipping forward onto its nose.

The incident was initially reported to City of Banning emergency dispatchers as an air emergency, followed by reports of a possible plane crash at the small, municipal airport.

The official cause of the crash has not yet been determined and is being investigated by Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board officials.

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Trevor Montgomery runs Riverside County News Source and Shasta County News Source. Additionally, he writes for Riverside County based newspapers, Valley News and Anza Valley Outlook and also writes for Bonsall/Fallbrook Village News in San Diego County.

Trevor spent 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Orthopedic Specialist before joining the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in 1998. He was medically retired after losing his leg and breaking his back in an off-duty accident.

During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations, including Robert Presley Detention Center, Southwest Station in Temecula, Hemet/Valle Vista Station, Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center and Lake Elsinore Station, along with other locations.

Trevor’s assignments included Corrections, Patrol, DUI Enforcement, Boat and Personal Water-Craft based Lake Patrol, Off-Road Vehicle Enforcement, Problem Oriented Policing Team and Personnel/Background Investigations. He finished his career while working as a Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigator and was a court-designated expert in child abuse and child sex-related crimes.

Trevor has been married for more than 26 years and was a foster parent to more than 60 children over 13 years. He is now an adoptive parent and has 13 children and 12 – soon to be 13 – grandchildren.