What were you up to four months after ? Cruising ‘round town, taking your pals to the drive-in movies? Well, in the world of the stakes are a touch higher, as one teenage pilot found when his engine failed midair.

, 18-year-old Brock Peters had been flying his family around in a Piper PA-28 light aircraft. While flying his family from Apple Valley Airport to Riverside Airport in Southern California, Peters said he “heard a boom” and then lost engine power. CBS News reports:

“In dire straits, Peters mustered everything he could recall from his emergency landing training and focused on bringing the plane down safely — especially since his grandmother and two cousins were in the passenger seats.

“Unable to notify a nearby airport tower because of the terrain, Peters called his mom to let her know. He made the decision to bring the plane down in the Cajon Pass on a small frontage road.”

Peters, who gained his pilot’s license just four months prior, told CBS News that he struggled to bring the plane to a halt on the Cajon Boulevard . While he was battling to get the plane safely on the ground, he said he had to “tune out” the sound of his “grandma crying in the back.”

He said: “I’m like ‘I’ve got to tune her out, focus on what I need to do and get this plane down safely and make sure everybody is OK.

“I knew I was going to land it, I knew I was going to.”

According to CBS, nobody was injured in the incident, and and NTSB are now investigating the cause of the emergency landing.