ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 272500
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| Date: | Friday 3 November 2006 |
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| Type: |  Cessna 182Q Skylane |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | ZS-KOW |
| MSN: | 18267349 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Sigodiphola village, north-west of Durban -
 South Africa
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| Nature: | |
| Departure airport: | Virginia Aerodrome (FAVG) |
| Ladysmith Aerodrome (FALY) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAA S.A. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft took off from FAVG on a private flight to FALY. The aircraft crashed into a hut in Sigodiphola village, north-west of Durban. The pilot was fatally injured in the accident. The reported weather conditions in the area at the time of the accident suggest that the accident aircraft was flying visual flight rules (VFR) in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) prior to the accident occurring. According to available records, the pilot was neither instrument rated nor was he night rated. A possibility could be that the pilot lost his sense of direction, that is, he became disorientated when he entered into IMC conditions, and the aircraft entered into a spiral descent and crashed into a hut. Probable Cause The accident was attributed to the flight continuing with VFR into IMC, resulting in the pilot becoming disorientated, leading to the aircraft entering into a spiral descent and crashing into a hut.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
S.A. CAA
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