CEN25LA205 · Lancair 360
Lancair 360 · Accident: fire/smoke (non-impact) en route
From El Paso International Airport (ELP) to San Antonio International Airport (SAT)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN25LA205
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Ongoing
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Lancair 360
- Aircraft type
- Lancair 360
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N77LH
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From El Paso International Airport (ELP), El Paso, TXTo San Antonio International Airport (SAT), San Antonio, TX
- Aircraft age
- About 26 years (built 1999)
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- En route · cruise
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On June 11, 2025, about 2145 central daylight time, a Lancair 360 airplane, N77LH, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Fort Stockton, Texas. The airline transport pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to the pilot, he had recently purchased the airplane in California, and he was performing a cross-country flight to his home base in Florida. The airplane stopped at the El Paso International Airport (ELP), El Paso, Texas to refuel. The airplane departed from ELP about 1940 mountain daylight time. While enroute to the San Antonio International Airport, San Antonio, Texas, the pilot smelled smoke in the cockpit. The pilot contacted air traffic control and changed his destination airport to the Fort Stockton-Pecos County Airport, Fort Stockton, Texas, due to the emergency. Once the pilot maneuvered the airplane for landing on runway 12, the cockpit was filled with smoke, and flames were emitting from underneath the instrument panel. During the landing, the pilot reported he did not have brake authority, and the airplane departed the runway to the left. The airplane came to rest upright against a barbed wire fence along the airport perimeter. The pilot was able to egress from the airplane without further incident. The fire consumed the engine compartment, part of the fuselage, and the left wing. The wreckage was recovered from the accident site, and it was transported to a secure location for future examination. The experimental airplane was built from a kit in 1999. The composite construction airplane was equipped with a Lycoming Engines O-360-A1A reciprocating engine. The airplane had a condition inspection performed by a mechanic on the airframe and the engine on June 9, 2025. During the inspection, it was noted that the airframe had accumulated 440.4 hours total time, and the engine had accumulated 2,220.9 hours total time (with 911.9 hours since overhaul). The pilot reported that the airplane maintenance records and the historical airplane build records were stored in the baggage compartment and consumed by the fire.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN25LA205
- Event ID
- 20250612200314
- Case number
- CEN25LA205
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status, coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 2025-06-12.
- API snapshot SHA-256: f1f598d69d7556cf86a75c17fcc0d6e7b0c9a884c00de501daa4491dc7e3f8a3; retrieved 2026-09-16T19:57:35.311Z.