Aircraft Impacted The Rock-Covered Hillside In A Left-Wing-Low Flight Attitude On May 7, 2026, about 1055 pacific daylight time (PDT), a Cessna 182T airplane, N227TF, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Armistead, California. The flight instructor and the pilot receiving instruction were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. According to the flight school, Top Flight Aviation, the flight instructor, who was presumably seated in the right seat, and the pilot receiving instruction, who was presumably seated in the left seat, had planned to fly from the Corona Municipal Airport (AJO), Corona, California to the Inyokern Airport (IYK), Inyokern, California, then return to AJO before continuing on to Las Vegas, Nevada for an overnight stay.
