ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 273513
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| Date: | Friday 30 July 1999 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Solo Wings Windlass |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | ZU-AWY |
| MSN: | WL 535 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Bothaville -
 South Africa
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| Nature: | |
| Departure airport: | Bothaville |
| Bothaville | |
| Investigating agency: | CAA S.A. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On Friday 30 July 1999, the church at Bothaville held a fete and the organizer asked one of the members of the congregation to do some flips for people in his microlight, during the course of the day. The flips were not to be paid for and only fuel would be supplied to him (the pilot/owner). The organizer had a runway scraped on an open piece of field next to the church and was in contact with the CAA in order to find out the procedures. He was led to believe that the if the flight is conducted from an open field and not from a public road no permission was needed. The pilot took off with a passenger and during the take-off he was unable to gain sufficient height and could not clear a tree in a garden of a house next to the open field. Only the passenger sustained minor injuries. PROBABLE CAUSE: Water contamination in the fuel.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
S.A. CAA
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