Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Thunder City was an aircraft operating and maintenance company based at the Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town, South Africa.It was well known for owning the largest civilian collection of former military jet aircraft in the world. [3]
8 July 1971 – Lightning F3 XP705 of No. 29 Squadron RAF was abandoned after an engine fire 35 miles south of RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. [5] 22 September 1971 – Lightning F3 XP736 of No. 29 Squadron RAF dived into the sea 40 miles from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. The pilot was killed and the cause of the crash is not known. [5] [21]
June 30 – Gianfranco Cicogna-Mozzoni died at the Klerksdorp Air Show in South Africa when his Aero L-39 Albatros got into the wake turbulence of the lead aircraft and suffered a compressor stall, followed by a high-speed wing stall, before hitting the ground at a 50-degree angle. The plane exploded on impact.
The Boksburg explosion took place on 24 December 2022, when a fuel tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exploded underneath a railway bridge in Boksburg, in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, [1] with a death toll of 41 people as of 18 January 2023. [2]
7 October 1961 - A Derby Aviation C-47 crashes into Canigou mountainside en route to Perpignan, killing all 34 aboard. 3 June 1962 - Air France Flight 007, a chartered Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Orly due to a mechanical failure. 130 people die. 22 June 1962 - Air France Flight 117 crashes into a hill and explodes killing all 113 on board.
October 9 – Lanseria Airport, near Johannesburg, South Africa – Demonstration Pilot Peter Philips flying a Britten-Norman Trislander in flying display performed a second wing-over and had insufficient altitude to recover. Impacted the runway and bounced into the air and came to rest some 500m further off to the side of the runway.
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in South Africa (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents in South Africa" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Destroyed in Seconds is an American television series that premiered on Discovery Channel on August 21, 2008. [2]Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.