38.8339° N, 104.8214° WPlaced by OpenAirDocs: center of Colorado Springs, CO, within about 8 miles.Open in the map
Date
January 8, 1985 · 10:15 local
Place
Colorado Spring, CO
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Final Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N743JA
Reported as
Beech E90
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,000 total50 in this make and model100 in the last 90 days
From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
On final, pilot lost nav radios except localizer and could not transmit. Nicad battery would not hold charge.
As the FAA filed it
ON FINAL, PILOT LOST NAV RADIOS EXCEPT LOCALIZER AND COULD NOT TRANSMIT. NICAD BATTERY WOULD NOT HOLD CHARGE.