Accidents
Final Report: ATC warning system faulted in MU-2 crash
Mitsubishi MU-2B-60, Parker, Colo., Aug.

Mitsubishi MU-2B-60, Parker, Colo., Aug. 4, 2005–The NTSB blamed the accident on the commercial pilot’s failure to fly a stabilized instrument approach at night. Contributing factors were the dark night and low clouds, the inadequate design and function of the airport facility’s minimum safe altitude warning system (MSAW), and the FAA’s inadequate procedure for updating information to air traffic controllers.

The tower controller heard a low-altitude alert from the MSAW system when the MU-2 was five miles out from the airport. He immediately notified the pilot but it was too late. Within seconds, the airplane had crashed about four miles from the airport on an instrument approach. The pilot was killed in the accident.

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