ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 327826
Date: | Wednesday 14 July 1982 |
Time: | 16:35 |
Type: | Swearingen SA226-AT Merlin IV |
Owner/operator: | South African Air Force - SAAF |
Registration: | ZS-JLZ |
MSN: | AT-040 |
Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Other fatalities: | 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Waterkloof Air Force Base (WKF) -
South Africa
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Waterkloof Air Force Base (WKF/FAWK) |
Narrative:A Merlin IV, operated by the South African Air Force, and a Piper PA-31 Navajo (ZS-KTX) crashed south of Pretoria, South Africa, following a mid-air collision.
The Merlin aircraft was returning from Namibia and was descending onto a wide left hand base-leg to land at Waterkloof Air Force Base when the aircraft collided. The Navajo had just taken off from Lanseria and was in the climb on a flight to Wonderboom Airport.
Sources:
SAAF Attrition Summaries *LEST WE FORGET* - 14 JULY Location
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