ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 272700
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| Date: | Wednesday 23 May 2007 |
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| Type: |  Robinson R22 Beta II |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | ZS-RLY |
| MSN: | 3082 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2000 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mpofu Safari Lodge, 60 km north of Lephalale -
 South Africa
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| Departure airport: | Mpofu Safari Lodge, 60 km north of Lephalale, Northern Province |
| Mpofu Safari Lodge, 60 km north of Lephalale, Northern Province | |
| Investigating agency: | CAA S.A. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
At approximately 1400Z, the pilot, accompanied by a passenger, took off from Mpofu Safari Lodge to look for an antelope that had been injured the previous day. Whilst the helicopter was flying over the Mogol River in close proximity to the ground, it struck a barbed wired fence and thereafter impacted with the ground, fatally injuring both occupants. Probable Cause The helicopter's tail rotor struck a 3-foot high barbed wire fence during a low-level flight and the helicopter impacted with the ground.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
S.A. CAA
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 25 September 2003 | ZS-RLY | Farm Waterfall near Machadodorp | |
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| 13 July 2012 | ZS-RLY | Private | 0 | On grass area D11 for helicopter approach at FAGC | |
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