ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 25556
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Date: | Saturday 5 November 1994 |
Time: | 10:00 |
Type: | Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | ZS-MXJ |
MSN: | 31-8012078 |
Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Trichardtsdal, Limpopo -
South Africa
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | FALA |
Destination airport: | Private Bushstrip |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Written off (damaged beyond repair) 5 November 1994. Crashed near Trichardtsdal, Limpopo, South Africa. All five persons on board (pilot and four passengers) were killed. One source (see link #3) advises that the PA-31 was destroyed when "it flew into Drakensburg Mountain".
Descended below min approach altitude of 7800' instead of 8700' as per own designed letdown plate for bush strip.
Sources:
1.
http://web.archive.org/web/20170906134144/http://www.baaa-acro.com/1994/archives/crash-of-a-piper-pa-31-navajo-chieftain-in-south-africa-5-killed/ 2.
http://www.scramble.nl/civil-database/details?bt=pa&af=4165 3.
http://avcom.co.za/phpBB3//phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=190307&start=30 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Sep-2008 01:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
30-Apr-2015 21:00 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
11-Oct-2017 15:01 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
05-Feb-2021 17:27 |
sundowner |
Updated [Time, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
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