# NTSB ERA26FA010: Beech C90, N291CC, Fort Worth, TX, October 12, 2025 - Type: NTSB accident investigation - Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 3 · Field · Preliminary report - Date: October 12, 2025, 13:34 local (18:34 UTC) - Place: Fort Worth, TX - Coordinates: 32.957192, -97.423095 - Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=32.9572&lon=-97.4231&mi=10 - Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping) - Defining event: [Approach-VFR pattern final: Abrupt maneuver](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/270) - Highest injury: Fatal - Injuries: 2 fatal - Status: Investigation ongoing - Investigation class: Class 3 - NTSB office: Eastern Region Aviation - Parties: TSB of Canada, Textron Aviation, FAA/FSDO - NTSB case key (mKey): 201835 - NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ERA26FA010 - NTSB preliminary report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/201835/pdf - Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA26FA010 ## Preliminary report On October 12, 2025, about 1334 central daylight time, a Beech C90, N291CC, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Fort Worth, Texas. The private pilot and pilot-rated passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) information, the airplane took off from Perot Field/Fort Worth Alliance Airport (AFW), Fort Worth, Texas, at 1203, proceeded in a northwesterly direction and performed several approaches to the Bowie Municipal Airport (0F2), Bowie, Texas. The airplane then flew in a southerly direction, performed one 360° right turn about 13 nautical miles south-southwest of 0F2, then flew south again. The airplane continued in a southerly direction until about 1325, when it turned left to a southeasterly direction and remained on that heading until about 1333. About that time, when the flight was about 3.8 nautical miles northwest of Hicks Airfield (T67), Fort Worth, Texas, the airplane turned right and began flying in a south-southeasterly direction toward T67. A pilot who was based at T67 and flying at the time of the accident, reported a radio transmission on the T67 common traffic advisory frequency, which was consistent with the accident airplane, on a 5-mile final approach to T67. She did not hear any further transmissions from the accident airplane, which continued the south-southeasterly heading toward T67. At 1333:34, when the flight was about 1.3 nautical miles northwest from the approach end of runway 14 at T67, the airplane turned left and began flying in a northerly direction. A video camera located about .25 nautical mile south of the accident site recorded the airplane flying low, above powerlines while in a slight left bank with the landing gear extended. The airplane continued on the northerly direction and began descending. The left bank angle increased and exceeded 90° before the airplane went out of view behind trees/bushes. ADS-B data showed that the airplane flew over a commercial building immediately adjacent to the accident site where several videos depicted the airplane impacting the ground while inverted and in a left wing low attitude. The airplane then impacted numerous parked, unoccupied commercial vehicles with an immediate explosion and extensive postcrash fire which consumed nearly the entire airplane. The remains of the wreckage, which included both engines and propellers, were recovered and retained for further examination. ## Sequence of events The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened. - [Approach-VFR pattern final: Abrupt maneuver](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/270) (defining event); cases with it: [Beech C90, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/270/sequence.md?model=1152913), [All aircraft, 346 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/270/sequence.md) - [Other: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240); cases with it: [Beech C90, 4 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240/sequence.md?model=1152913), [All aircraft, 5,002 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240/sequence.md) - [Uncontrolled descent: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT) ](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470); cases with it: [Beech C90, 8 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470/sequence.md?model=1152913), [All aircraft, 10,189 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470/sequence.md) - [Post-impact: Fire/smoke (post-impact)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/170); cases with it: [Beech C90, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/170/sequence.md?model=1152913), [All aircraft, 354 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/170/sequence.md) - [Post-impact: Explosion (post-impact)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/180); cases with it: [Beech C90, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/180/sequence.md?model=1152913), [All aircraft, 47 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/180/sequence.md) ## Aircraft - Registration: [N291CC](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N291CC), registered now, S/N LJ-728, built 1977 (OpenAirDocs) - Reported make and model: BEECH C90 - Registry model: [Beech C90](https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-c90) (registry code 1152913) (OpenAirDocs) - Registry engine: [Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-60A](https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-canada-pt6a-60a) (registry code 52043, turbo-prop) (OpenAirDocs) - Category: Airplane - Serial number: LJ-728 - Year built: 1977 - Airframe hours: 13059 - Damage: Destroyed - Fire: On-Ground - Flight: Personal, Part 91 - Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal - Last inspection: Continuous airworthiness, September 8, 2025 - Departed: AFW, Fort Worth, TX - Airport: T67, Hicks Airfield, runway 14, 3,740 × 60 ft, asphalt - Equipment: Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system ## Weather - Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day - Wind: 180° at 15 knots - Visibility: 10 statute miles - Temperature: 90 °F, dew point 54 °F - Altimeter: 29.80 inHg - Observed at: KAFW, 6 nm away - METAR: KAFW 121853Z 18015KT 10SM FEW250 32/12 A2980 RMK AO2 SLP077 T03220117 $ ## Other investigations on N291CC (1) From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. - [NTSB ERA11LA330](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA11LA330), May 27, 2011: Beech C90 (N291CC), Camden, SC, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot's in-flight decision to continue toward his destination, through known significant weather, when safer alternatives were available. From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. --- OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.