ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 273308
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| Date: | Saturday 8 July 2000 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28-180 |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | ZS-ISI |
| MSN: | 28-474 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Near Scandenavia (Vaal River -
 South Africa
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| Phase: | |
| Nature: | |
| Departure airport: | Potchefstroom |
| Potchefstroom | |
| Investigating agency: | CAA S.A. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot was on a private, local flight when he struck a high tension cable with the vertical stabilizer. According to the pilot he saw the wire too late to take evasive action and the cable severed the rotating beacon from the top of the stabilizer. He immediately returned to Potchefstroom and after landing they discovered that the horizontal stabilizer was also slightly bent. The aircraft was not yet registered in the new owner's name, although being sold over a year ago. PROBABLE CAUSE: Flying at too a low altitude and was unable to avoid collision with high-tension conductors.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
S.A. CAA
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