

It was just coming in for a normal landing and ended up on its nose.” “It hadn’t reported any incidents prior to the landing. “It’s hard to say at this point what really caused that,” he said. The aircraft, a Cessna 185 with two people aboard, was in the process of making a landing on the northern portion of the runway when it ended up nose-first into the ground, Holt said.

“Our first responders were able to come out and assist us with this incident,” Holt added. As they did so, they called it in to 911 dispatchers at Cedar Communications. “Airport operations was notified that there was an aircraft accident out on the runway,” Holt said, adding that he and airport operations specialist Tyler Galetka both responded to the scene. George News / Cedar City NewsĪirport manager Nick Holt told Cedar City News that the incident was reported just before 1:30 p.m.

First responders at the scene of a crash landing involving a Cessna 185 at Cedar City Regional Airport, Cedar City, Utah, Nov. CEDAR CITY - Two occupants of a small private aircraft walked away unharmed following a crash landing at Cedar City Regional Airport on Monday, airport officials said.
