A small plane made an emergency landing Tuesday on Mission Beach in San Diego. “A small Cessna landed on the shore in Mission Beach about 20 minutes after takeoff this morning. The pilot and his daughter were over Bird Rock when the engine started to give out,” Collin Rugg wrote. “A witness on the beach said the pilot picked the ‘perfect spot’ to land, according to NBC San Diego. No one was injured, according to fire officials,” he added. Check it out: JUST IN: Plane makes an emergency landing on the beach in San Diego, California. A small Cessna landed on the shore in Mission Beach about 20 minutes after takeoff this morning. The pilot and his daughter were over Bird Rock when the engine started to give out. A witness on… pic.twitter.com/MB6eDS2R7J — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 21, 2025 The San Diego Union-Tribune has more: When the engine on his small plane suddenly quit about 800 feet above the San Diego coastline, pilot Victor Schneider started looking for a safe place to land. He and his daughter had taken off from the Oceanside airport about 15 minutes earlier. Schneider, a commercial airline pilot who has owned the Cessna for more than 23 years, found a spot on the sand in Mission Beach near the waterline. Shortly before noon, he glided to a stop. He and his daughter opened the doors and climbed out of the plane after the emergency landing. No one on the ground was injured, either. Schneider told reporters he tried to restart the plane’s engine after it cut out, but he realized he “couldn’t get it back.” A small plane landed on the shores of Mission Beach, according to San Diego Fire-Rescue. Authorities said two people were on board and no injuries were reported. pic.twitter.com/FJTFAV3IXy — KUSI News (@KUSINews) October 21, 2025 “The thing is you want to put it down where it’s safe, and I didn’t want to hit anybody,” Schneider said, according to the outlet. “So fortunately there wasn’t that many people on the beach. There was only about four people within about a quarter of a mile, so they were all widely spaced,” he added. Weather conditions in the area reportedly weren’t ideal for spending a day at the beach. FOX 5 San Diego noted: Schneider says he had about 10 feet of hard sand to land on and had to also maneuver the landing amid high tide. “I had a complete engine failure,” Schneider said. “I came over onto the beach, and there were very few people. I had a really good open spot to put it on the beach.” The two were not injured during the emergency landing. There were also no injuries reported from beachgoers. The plane is a 1953 Cessna 170, and Schneider says he’s logged about 25,000 hours of flying over the years. He’s had this Cessna for over 23 years, and he says this is the first time he’s had a problem with it. The FAA is expected to arrive to help move the plane from the shore and return it to Oceanside, where it departed.