GC2WQAR United Airlines Flight 585
Type: Mystery | Size: Other | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: cnpem @ | Hide Date: 05/22/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 45.248 W104° 43.159 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
           

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THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE PUBLISHED COORDINATES
United Airlines Flight 585
Boeing 737-291
Tail Number: N999UA
Looking for a Bison Tube

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This flight was taking a total of 20 passengers and 5
crewmembers from Stapleton International Airport
to Colorado Springs Airport on the morning of March 3rd, 1991
when it had unexpected trouble and unfortunately didn't
make it to the Airport. It went down 3.47 Nautical Miles south
and .17 Nautical Miles east of the intended runway
at the Springs Airport.
In order to find this cache, you must do the following:

Determine the exact location that Flight 585 made
contact with the terrain. From that location,
you need to travel 92 smoots westand then travel 1504
smoots North. Once you do this, you should
be able to locate the physical cache container.

Congratulations to ernie66 and hiking_fool for Co-FTF.

I guess Hartsdale stopped for ice cream again.

FTF without hint was rob14erguy. Congrats.

Additional Waypoints

09/01/2018 By chihuahuajill
Quick find. I moved here a couple of months after the crash, but don’t remember anything about it. Thanks for placing this cache for me to find. TFTC.

08/16/2018 By gampa&gamma
Although we weren’t living in Colorado Springs at the time of the crash, we heard about it on the evening news and were shocked that the accident occurred so close to home. On a related note, we found the WWII Crash Site cache yesterday. It’s a blessing that there aren’t more aircraft accidents in the challenging flight environment around Colorado Springs.

It took a bit of research and computation to solve this puzzle. The actual find was much easier. This is day #1000 of our caching streak; thanks for the fun puzzle cache.

05/12/2018 By DustyKat
I have had this one solved for a long time and found time to go to this area today for the find.

04/28/2018 By RPieperCO
Thanks for the puzzle cache. I remember this day as I've lived here most of my life. What a tragic accident and a huge shock to the community.

I've had this one on my list of solved puzzles for some time now but I rarely go south. Today the kids and I needed to get out and enjoy the amazing weather! We decided to head this way to a nearby park. This was the second stop and made for a quick one. I was able to spot it on approach. Signed the log and replaced as found. All is well here.

Thanks again for the reminder of that tragic day and the puzzle cache to go with it.

03/23/2018 By Sasquatchandwife
Started the Planetary Pursuit challenge this week. This one helped us with necessary points for the challenge. At first, we couldn't figure it out. Then, with a little work, we figured out how to use Google maps and the measuring distance tool. It wasn't perfect work, so we didn't attempt the geochecker. We went to were we thought the container should be, and found it after a short time. TFTC.

08/07/2017 By OR85OR450
I worked the puzzle a couple times... there's an online resource about the starting point which gave nearly the exact numbers I had on gpsr in person. Either way, my "solve" was in a mowed area on the wrong side of the street; making the find was exactly as GPS nav described in his log.
The o-ring was inside, allowing all the rain to be there too; I tossed the sloppy original paper, replaced it and put the lid back on nice & snug.