ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 272993
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| Date: | Monday 12 April 1999 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Cessna 172N Skyhawk |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | ZS-JYV |
| MSN: | 17269635 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Hennopspark (Centurion -
 South Africa
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| Phase: | |
| Nature: | |
| Departure airport: | FLY-INN |
| FLY-INN | |
| Investigating agency: | CAA S.A. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot took off from Fly-In, where the aircraft is based, for a traffic inspection flight over the greater Pretoria area. Due to a number of motor accidents in the CBD, the circled the city center for a quite some time. As they were headed out towards the Ben Schoeman highway and at approximately 5500 ft AMSL, the engine started to cut out. The pilot switched between fuel tanks but to no avail. A forced landing was inevitable and their options of open fields were very limited. The pilot managed to land the aircraft on the up slope of a grass field next to a small shopping center. The aircraft came to an abrupt halt onto an embankment, after crossing a road approximately, 70 m from the initial touch down point. The aircraft was inspected on scene and it was found that there was no visible fuel in the tanks, although it was possible to draw fuel samples from the front inner drain hole, while the aircraft was lying in a nose down position. PROBABLE CAUSE: The engine failed as a result of fuel exhaustion.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
S.A. CAA
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