LAKE MATHEWS, Calif. (KESQ) – A single-engine Cessna went down today south of Lake Mathews in what appeared to be a forced landing by the pilot, who escaped injury, along with his passenger.
The controlled crash was reported shortly before noon Wednesday in the 15100 block of Lake Mathews Drive, near Gavilan Springs Road, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.
“Our dispatch center received multiple reports of an aircraft down,” Battalion Chief Josh Rivers said in an online post to the agency’s social media page. “Our first arriving engines found the single-engine Cessna with two occupants (who) were both non-injury.”…