Date: | Tuesday 1 March 1988 |
Time: | |
Type: | Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante |
Owner/operator: | Comair |
Registration: | ZS-LGP |
MSN: | 110402 |
Year of manufacture: | 1982 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 17 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Germiston, c. 13 km SW of Johannesburg International Airport (JNB' -
South Africa
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Phalaborwa Airport (PHW/FAPH) |
Destination airport: | Johannesburg International Airport (JNB/FAJS) |
Narrative:An Embraer 110P1 Bandeirante passenger plane, registered ZS-LGP, was destroyed when it crashed in an industrial area of Germiston, South Africa. All seventeen on board were killed. The airplane operated on a flight from Phalaborwa Airport (PHW) to Johannesburg International Airport (JNB).
Witnesses reported that they heard a violent explosion and saw the aircraft break in two. The flightdeck was found more than 250 m (820 feet) away from the fuselage.
A mineworker with marital and financial problems who had recently taken out a large insurance policy on his life, had boarded the plane. He is thought to have detonated an explosive device.
Sources:
Flight International 12 March 1988
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Sun City-Pilansberg Airport (NTY); February 1986
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