B757 captain reported failure of electronic flight bag on final approach.

Attributes
ACN	1684036
Time
Date	201909
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	BOS.Airport
State Reference	MA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B757 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Electronic Flt Bag (EFB)
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 120 Flight Crew Total 18500 Flight Crew Type 6500
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe

Narrative:

While hand flying the turn from base to final; my ipad became unresponsive when attempting to switch jepp FD pro view from the STAR chart to the approach chart for the ILS 27 approach. The display then blanked and the ipad became completely unresponsive; a state in which it remains hours later. Due to the daytime VMC conditions; having already briefed the approach; and my familiarity with the airport; I continued the approach and landing. The first officer (first officer) suggested giving me his ipad; but at this late stage of the approach I considered it the safest option to continue to the landing without transferring his ipad. The landing; roll out and taxi in to the gate was uneventful. Had this event occurred at night; in IMC; or at an unfamiliar airport a go-around would have been required in order to brief our new plan for operating with limited information for one pilot; and planning the subsequent flight operations and taxi would have been much more difficult without any back-up paper charts to help.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B757 Captain reported failure of Electronic Flight Bag on final approach.

Narrative: While hand flying the turn from base to final; my iPad became unresponsive when attempting to switch Jepp FD Pro view from the STAR chart to the approach chart for the ILS 27 approach. The display then blanked and the iPad became completely unresponsive; a state in which it remains hours later. Due to the daytime VMC conditions; having already briefed the approach; and my familiarity with the airport; I continued the approach and landing. The FO (First Officer) suggested giving me his iPad; but at this late stage of the approach I considered it the safest option to continue to the landing without transferring his iPad. The landing; roll out and taxi in to the gate was uneventful. Had this event occurred at night; in IMC; or at an unfamiliar airport a go-around would have been required in order to brief our new plan for operating with limited information for one pilot; and planning the subsequent flight operations and taxi would have been much more difficult without any back-up paper charts to help.

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