ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 273505
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| Date: | Friday 1 September 2000 |
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| Type: | Solo Wings Windlass |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | ZU-AWP |
| MSN: | WL 528 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | N1 Highway near Bloemfontein -
 South Africa
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| Departure airport: | Tempe Aerodrome |
| Tempe Aerodrome | |
| Investigating agency: | CAA S.A. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Two aircraft flying in a loose formation accompanied the pilot, who was engaged in a pleasure flight. The two aircraft were flying at a height of approximately 800 ' 1 000 feet above ground level while the pilot of the accident aircraft was flying at low level. Shortly after take-off while flying overhead the Kimberley road (R64) in the direction of Bloemfontein, one of the pilot's flying at higher altitude made radio contact with him and questioned him on why he was flying at such low level, he informed him that he would ascent within the next few minutes. At the point where the R64 and the N1 highway joined, the accident aircraft turned North. Shortly thereafter one of the pilot's observed high-tension wires ahead, he was unable to advise the accident pilot in time, who collided with the wires, the aircraft tumbled towards the ground and crashed onto the highway. The pilot was seriously injured and emergency surgery was conducted on his arrival at hospital, the pilot died a few weeks later. PROBABLE CAUSE: The pilot failed to maintain an adequate lookout while flying at low-level. (Below the prescribed limitations as stipulated in CAR’s, Part
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
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