ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 272991
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| Date: | Monday 8 May 2000 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Cessna 150M |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | ZS-JKN |
| MSN: | 15077501 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | R115 next to Diepsloot -
 South Africa
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| Phase: | |
| Nature: | |
| Departure airport: | Grand Central |
| Grand Central | |
| Investigating agency: | CAA S.A. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The instructor with a student on board was engaged in a night cross-country flight. On their return flight approximately 10 nm from Grand Central, the engine failed and the pilot carried out a forced landing on the R-511 road next to Diepsloot. On landing the right-hand wing struck a sign post, causing the aircraft to veer to the right off the road and the aircraft went through a ditch. The aircraft was extensively damaged but nobody was injured. PROBABLE CAUSE: The engine failure was due to fuel starvation.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
S.A. CAA
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| 19 March 2011 | ZS-JKN | Private | 0 | ± 7km west of Machododorp, Mpumalanga | |
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