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Four Killed in Beech C90 Crash Near Lincoln, New Mexico

The accident record lists four people on board and four fatalities in the 14 May 2026 crash; the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating and the cause has not been determined.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 11:00 a.m. ET
people were killed when a twin-engine turboprop crashed near Lincoln, New Mexico, at about 6:15 a.m. local time on 14 May 2026, according to the accident record. The record lists souls on board and fatalities, and states that the aircraft was destroyed. This remains a developing event, and the details available so far come from the accident record rather than from on-scene reporting. The accident record identifies the aircraft as and the operator as , and classifies the flight as a Part 135 commuter or on-demand operation. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. The cause has not been determined. Aircraft registry records list as a twin-engine turboprop landplane with P&W PT6A series engines, serial number LJ-841, registered in the United States. The registry lists the registered owner as TDS Property Holdings LLC; the owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight. Public business records describe TDS Property Holdings LLC as a Texas limited liability company formed on 13 April 2021 in Upshur County, with a listed address at 48 Aviation Dr, Gilmer, Texas, and an active status following reinstatement on 2 April 2024; a commercial business directory classifies its line of business as real estate investment trusts. FAA-derived registration data lists the same company as the registered owner of a 1976 Beech 58TC, N2130L. No aviation operating certificate or filed management structure for the company could be located in the sources reviewed. This is background on the owner of record and says nothing about the cause of this accident. As a matter of record, the NTSB database, which begins in 2008, contains 43 other cases involving the , of which 18 involved a fatality. That is a count and not a safety rate, and it says nothing about what happened here. Geographic reference data places the settlement of Lincoln, in Lincoln County, New Mexico, at an elevation of 5,784 feet — that is the elevation of the settlement, not of the accident site — and 3.9 miles south-southeast of Block Ranch Airport (4AZ2), 15 miles south of G Bar F Ranch Airport (NM84) and 21 miles south-southwest of Sierra Blanca Regional Airport (KSRR/RUI). The NTSB investigation remains open.

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Reference data

From aircraft and geographic registries, not from the news sources. Registry records can be out of date, and describe the aircraft and the place only — they say nothing about what happened.

Registration
N249CP
Type
Beech C90 — twin-engine turboprop landplane
Engines
P&W PT6A SERIES
Registered owner
Tds Property Holdings LlcThe owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight.
Terrain elevation
5,784 ft
Nearest aerodrome
3.9 miles NNW of Block Ranch Airport (4AZ2)

Sources

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Revision history

  1. Version 27 Aug 2026, 15:00current

    Corrected the geographic reference paragraph to make clear the 5,784 ft elevation is that of the settlement rather than the accident site; no new facts.

  2. Version 15 Aug 2026, 15:57

    First published.

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