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An Alouette III helicopter of the South African Air Force (SAAF) crewed by an SAAF pilot, Air Sub-Lieutenant Johannes van Rensberg, and a South African Air Force (SAF) flight technician, Sergeant Pieter van Rensberg, was flying from Umtali to Melsetter with four senior Rhodesian Army officers as passengers. These were Major General John Shaw ...
Golf course designer Learjet 35: Mina, South Dakota, United States Hypoxia; see 1999 South Dakota Learjet crash. Payne Stewart also died in this accident. Subhas Chandra Bose: India 1945 Politician and freedom fighter Mitsubishi Ki-21: Taipei, Japanese Taiwan (alleged) Cause disputed: Ahmed Ould Bouceif: Mauritania 1979 Politician, Prime ...
The pilot guided the airplane onto an adjacent golf course where it skidded and hit a tree. The pilot suffered a sprained ankle; the aircraft was destroyed. [141] June 3 – A Fairey Firefly AS.6 WB518 suffered a landing gear collapse on runway 27R at the Wings over Gillespie airshow in El Cajon, California. The pilot was uninjured. [142]
The aircraft was on a flight from AFB Waterkloof to Mthatha Airport when it crashed near Giant's Castle in the Drakensberg, killing all eleven people on board. [2] Shortly before the crash at 09:45 hours South African Standard Time (07:45 UTC), [3] the crew reported that they were flying on instruments at 11,000 feet (3,400 m) in instrument meteorological conditions.
Three South African navy personnel died and a senior officer was in critical condition after seven crew members of a submarine were swept off its deck by big waves as a helicopter was attempting ...
Orkney, South Africa: 62 31 August 1987 A methane gas explosion at the St. Helena gold mine severed the cable of a double-deck elevator, causing it to fall 1.4 kilometers to the bottom of the mine shaft, killing all 52 people on board. 10 others who were not in the elevator were killed in the explosion. [104] [105] Welkom, South Africa: 31 27 ...
The plane crashed in the area between Persimmon Hill Golf Course and the Saluda County Airport, according to the release.. Information about the cause of the crash was not available, but the ...
Flights at Charleston International Airport were suspended for around two hours on Tuesday after a South Carolina sheriff's department helicopter crashed, leaving the pilot with non-life ...