ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 272636
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| Date: | Monday 18 December 2006 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28-140 |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | ZS-ELU |
| MSN: | 28-21387 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Johannesburg central business district (CBD) near Vodacom Tower -
 South Africa
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| Departure airport: | Lanseria Aerodrome (FALA) |
| Rand Aerodrome (FALA) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAA S.A. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot departed Lanseria Aerodrome to Rand Aerodrome. Before take-off, the pilot was advised by Lanseria ATC, that the visibility was ok within 10 miles' radius from Lanseria Aerodrome. However, a thunderstorm was reported approaching from the south-west. The pilot was caught by the thunderstorm, mist and heavy rain while flying over the Johannesburg CBD. Due to the poor visibility, the pilot was disorientated, with the result that he lost control of the aircraft and crashed in a nose-down attitude. The aircraft was destroyed during the impact with the building. The Johannesburg Emergency Management Services, SAPS and metro police went to the site, until the SACAA investigators took over the scene of the accident. Probable Cause Spatial disorientation of the pilot due to the fact that he conducted a VMC flight into IMC and experienced a loss of visual reference.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
S.A. CAA
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