ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 283866
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| Date: | Thursday 7 April 2022 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Cessna 172M Skyhawk |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | ZS-SBN |
| MSN: | 17266104 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Category: | Incident |
| Location: | Moloto Road -
 South Africa
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Pretoria-Wonderboom Airport (PRY/FAWB) |
| Pretoria-Wonderboom Airport (PRY/FAWB) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAA S.A. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The instructor stated that before the flight, they had a short briefing whereafter a pre-flight inspection was conducted on the aircraft. All was normal with the aircraft. On-board the aircraft was 120 litres (I)of Avgas 100LL fuel in the tanks. The flight was planned to last for an hour and was conducted under Part 141 of the Civil Aviation Regulations 2011 as amended. The aircraft took off from Runway 29 and flew towards Pretoria GFA. The flight instructor reported that approximately 15 minutes into the flight whilst overhead Rooival power station, he observed an erroneous engine oil temperature indication. The instructor took control of the aircraft and initiated a turn back to FAWB. The instructor reported that after flying over the N1 Highway with the intention to join traffic for Runway 29, he heard an abnormal clicking noise coming from the engine compartment; this was followed by a gradual loss of engine power. The instructor glided the aircraft in the direction of Moloto Road, which was had limited traffic, and executed a safe forced landing in a southerly direction.
Probable cause:
The engine crankshaft failed due to fatigue, which resulted in engine stoppage and prompted the pilot to carry out a forced landing, which was successful
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAA S.A.
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