ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 206470
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| Date: | Wednesday 23 August 1972 |
| Time: | 16:10 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-32-300 Cherokee Six |
| Owner/operator: | Ker Downey & Selby Aviation Ltd., |
| Registration: | 5Y-AHX |
| MSN: | 32-40391 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mkamba village 35NM SW of Daressalam -
 Tanzania
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Behobeho Airstrip |
| Dar es Salaam | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Collided with a tree while trying to land on a forrest clearing. Four German tourists (Scharnow-Touropa).
Cause
The aircraft struck the top of a tree with its starboard wings resulting in the separation of the aileron from its attachments while flying low in the area of a forest clearing during darkness in an attempt to make a landing in a clearing. The aircraft then became uncontrollable and struck the ground at an angle of about 30° from the vertical.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
Hamburger Abendblatt 25+26 August 1972, p24
Civil Aircraft Registers of Africa
Air Britain
https://www.tcaa.go.tz/files/documents/final%20report%2018-72%20%20PA32-300%20%205Y-AHX%20%20MKAMBA%20VILLAGE.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-Feb-2018 18:38 | TB | Added |
| 02-Mar-2018 20:36 | TB | Updated [Total fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 19-Jan-2019 09:40 | Cobar | Updated [Date, Registration, Cn, Operator, Country, Source] |
| 19-Jan-2019 10:02 | Cobar | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Feb-2020 16:58 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 21-May-2020 07:00 | KagurazakaHanayo | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-May-2020 07:04 | harro | Updated [Source, Accident report, ] |
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