ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 273281
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| Date: | Thursday 30 November 2000 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28-180 |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | ZS-MTU |
| MSN: | 28-4677 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | On Runway 18 at Port Alfred -
 South Africa
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| Phase: | |
| Nature: | |
| Departure airport: | Port Alfred |
| Port Alfred | |
| Investigating agency: | CAA S.A. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
When the pilot returned after a cross-country training flight from Port Alfred to East London and Bisho he approached to land back at Port Alfred. According to him the final approach 'looked good'?, but when he landed the aircraft 'bounced a bit'? and when it touched down again it headed for the grass. The pilot did not manage to keep the aircraft on the runway and it ran into the grass damaging the nose landing gear and propeller. PROBABLE CAUSE: The pilot lost directional control of the aircraft during landing.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
S.A. CAA
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 January 2001 | ZS-MTU | 0 | On Runway 10 at Port Alfred | |
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