- Date
- September 19, 2025, 20:59 local (Sep 20, 2025, 01:59 UTC)
- Place
- Seagoville, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N2500QCessna 150G
- Defining event
- Enroute-descent: Fuel exhaustion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report January 15, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 201066
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Probable cause
The pilot’s inadequate fuel planning which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
Findings · 4
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 pilot and pilot rated passenger were on a cross country flight when the airplane’s engine stopped. The pilot conducted a forced landing to a field. The airplane struck a fence and sustained substantial damage to the fuselage, empennage, and wings. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the fuel tanks were not breached and contained no usable fuel. After the accident, the pilot stated that he was surprised they ran out of fuel and will use this accident as a lesson learned.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2500Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 150G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15066600
- Built
- 1967
- Airframe hours
- 6,188
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Saydun LLC
- Registered owner
- Saydun LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 11, 2025
- Departed
- CDH · Camden, AR
- Destination
- LNC · Lancaster, TX
- Airport
- LNC · Lancaster Regional
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, Handheld GPS
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
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 22
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 5, 2024
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 767 total · 208 in this make and model · 668 as pilot in command · 108 in the last 90 days · 60 in the last 30 days · 11 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 21
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 30, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 552 total · 85 in this make and model · 463 as pilot in command · 297 in the last 90 days · 116 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Observed at
- KLNC, 10 nm away
- METAR
- KLNC 200155Z AUTO 00000KT CLR 27/18 A2998
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 15, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 35.4 MB in all.