Event DEN86FA022

1985-11-13 HOLLY, Colorado, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7313Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-25-235

Year of manufacture

1965 · 20 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O-540-B4B5 (235 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070301

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9D19B

Registrant of record

SIMMONS MARK A DBA

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7313Z Piper PA-25-235B Fatal

Factual narrative

ACCORDING TO THE PLT'S BROTHER, HE WAS ON A FLT TO CALIBRATE THE ACFT'S SPRAYING EQUIPMENT & TO MAKE A FEW PRACTICE CROP SPRAYING RUNS. WHILE FLYING AT APRX 30 FT AGL, THE ACFT STRUCK POWER LINES, THEN CRASHED TO THE GROUND & BURNED. NO PREIMPACT PART FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION WAS EVIDENT. TOXICOLOGY TESTS SHOWED THE PLT HAD A BLOOD/ALCOHOL LEVEL OF 0.117% & A URINE/ALCOHOL LEVEL OF 0.274%. A TRACE OF CANNABINOID METABOLITES WAS DETECTED IN THE PLT'S URINE, BUT NONE WAS FND IN HIS BLOOD. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1985_DEN86FA022.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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