Date: | Saturday 30 June 1962 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas DC-4-1009 |
Owner/operator: | South African Airways - SAA |
Registration: | ZS-BMH |
MSN: | 43157 |
Year of manufacture: | 1947 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 51 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Durban -
South Africa
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Johannesburg International Airport (JNB/FAJS) |
Destination airport: | Durban-Louis Botha Airport (DUR/FADN) |
Narrative:A Douglas DC-4 passenger plane operated by South African Airways sustained damage to the tail fin following a collision with a North American Harvard IIA (7464, c/n 88-14163) operated by the South African Air Force.
The Harvard trainer, call sign 'Chaka 2' crashed and both pilots bailed out safely. The DC-4 continued for a safe landing at Durban.
Sources:
Fields of Air/ by James Byrom
Viktor Culjak
The Harvard Association of South Africa Images:
photo (c) unknown; Durban; 30 June 1962
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