ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 272897
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| Date: | Saturday 19 August 2000 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Atlas AL-60C-4M Kudu |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | ZS-WWE |
| MSN: | 11 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Phalaborwa Aerodrome -
 South Africa
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| Nature: | |
| Departure airport: | Phalaborwa Aerodrome |
| Phalaborwa Aerodrome | |
| Investigating agency: | CAA S.A. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
1) The pilot took off from Phalaborwa Aerodrome on a local flight in an Atlas Kudu tail wheel type aircraft. However upon landing on runway 01 at Phalaborwa with full flaps at an IAS of 70kt and the wind 270/4kt, the aircraft bounced causing the right-hand main undercarriage to collapse and to separate from the aircraft. The right wing made contact with the ground and the aircraft ground- looped through 180s?. The right hand flap was substantially damaged 2) The pilot was not injured. PROBABLE CAUSE: The aircraft bounced upon landing in slight crosswind conditions, which caused the right-hand undercarriage to collapse and to separate from the aircraft.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
S.A. CAA
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| 20 July 2008 | ZS-WWE | H.K. Wooding | 0 | Cato Ridge Airfield, KZN | |
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