- Date
- April 28, 2025, 15:37 local (20:37 UTC)
- Place
- Lancaster, TX · Corn field
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N501MSBeech C90
- Defining event
- Approach-IFR final approach: Fuel exhaustion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA North Texas FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250428015899A
- Case key
- 200154
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s improper fuel planning, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and a total loss of power to both engines.
Findings · 5
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The twin-engine airplane departed for the international cross-country flight with 380 gallons of Jet A fuel onboard. No fuel stops were performed during the flight. During the approach to the destination airport, the pilot reported that the right engine instruments began to display a decrease in power, until a total loss of power occurred. Shortly after, the left engine sustained a total loss of power. The pilot performed a forced landing to a flat corn field, located about 19.5 miles southeast of the destination airport. The two controllable pitch propellers were not feathered, and the main landing gear was not extended prior to landing in the field. The airplane came to rest upright in the field. The three occupants were able to egress from the airplane without further incident. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and the left wing, and no evidence of a reported fire was noted with the right engine. During the recovery operation, the airframe fuel system was found intact and there were no visible signs of fuel leakage on the airframe. The airframe can contain up to 384 gallons of usable fuel. For the left side of the airplane, about 1 pint of fuel was recovered from the main fuel tank and about 9 gallons of fuel were recovered from the nacelle fuel tank. For the right side of the airplane, about 2 pints of fuel were recovered from the main fuel tank and no fuel was recovered from the nacelle fuel tank. The pilot did not provide any accident flight fuel planning calculation documents. The airplane was not equipped with a low fuel warning light system, nor was it required to be.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N501MS
- Reported as
- Beech C90
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- LJ-626
- Built
- 1974
- Airframe hours
- 14,250
- Engines
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-20, 550 horsepower, turbo propPratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-20, 550 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Gm Intercom LLC, doing business as Gm Intercom LLC
- Registered owner
- Alcyone Trust Corp Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 30, 2024 · 80 hours before
- Departed
- MMSM · Zumpango de Ocampo, OF
- Destination
- DAL · Dallas, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Onboard weather, Auto-pilot, ADS-B
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 20
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 20, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 764.7 total · 194.6 in this make and model · 204.5 as pilot in command · 77.6 in the last 90 days · 37.6 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 21
- Injuries
- Serious
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 7, 2023
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 300 total · 20 in this make and model · 135.4 as pilot in command · 4.3 in the last 90 days · 4.3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,100 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.96 inHg
- Observed at
- KLNC, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KLNC 282035Z AUTO 17009KT 10SM OVC031 26/21 A2996 RMK AO2 T02550207
Docket · 12
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 11, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 33.4 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.