A National Transportation Safety Board report has linked the May 14, 2026 crash of a medical transport aircraft near , New Mexico, to U.S. military GPS jamming activities in the area, USA Today reported. The investigation remains open and the account below is developing.
According to USA Today, the aircraft was a operated by that left Roswell Air Center at 11:52 p.m. MT on May 13 to pick up a patient for transport to Albuquerque, flying toward Sierra Blanca Regional Airport near Ruidoso. The crash occurred at MT. people died, including passengers, USA Today reported. Trans Aero Medevac identified the victims as pilots Keelan Clark and Ali Kawsara and flight nurses Jamie Novick and Sarah Clark. The plane and air crew were based at Roswell Air Center. County officials said the plane lost communications and radar and did not arrive as scheduled. The U.S. Forest Service said the crash caused a weeks-long wildfire in the Capitan Mountains that spread to nearly 5 acres.
The NTSB's report, as described by USA Today, states the plane experienced a loss of GPS navigation capability and that a pilot's radio transmission reporting "a visual on Ruidoso" was "stepped on by other radio traffic." Other planes in the area also experienced similar GPS issues the same day. This is a finding only: as of Aug. 8, NTSB investigators had not determined the probable cause of the crash or any contributing factors, and a final report is expected in the coming months. The cause has not been determined.
The official NTSB case record for the accident, WPR26FA186, lists the aircraft's registration as . Aircraft registry records describe as a Beech C90, 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. No record could be established for an aviation organisation of that name in the searches conducted; entities with the same or a very similar name appear in Texas and Florida filings, and whether either is the same organisation could not be confirmed. FAA registration data reproduced by FlightAware lists a "TDS PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLC" of Gilmer, Texas as the registered owner of a 1976 Beech 58TC (N2130L), indicating an aircraft-holding entity rather than a certificated operator so far as the record shows; third-party business-filing mirrors classify the Texas company under real estate.
As a matter of record, the NTSB database, which begins in 2008, contains 43 other cases involving the Beech C90, of which 18 involved a fatality. That count is not a safety rate and says nothing about the cause of this accident.
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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.
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