ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 181047
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Date: | Friday 6 November 2015 |
Time: | 11:15 |
Type: | Whisper Motor Glider |
Owner/operator: | B.G. McLeod |
Registration: | ZU-GAO |
MSN: | WA-06039 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Greenbushes, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape -
South Africa
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Test |
Departure airport: | FAPE |
Destination airport: | FAPE |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:The aircraft suffered an in-flight engine failure. The pilot carried out a successful emergency landing and escaped from the aircraft uninjured. The aircraft then caught fire and was completely destroyed apart from the tail section.
Sources:
1.
BREAKING NEWS: A light aircraft crashed in the Greenbushes Area outside Port Elizabeth 2.
Facebook photo of pilot involved in the incident with accompanying story 3.
Pilot survives Greenbushes crash Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Nov-2015 12:35 |
Topaz |
Added |
06-Nov-2015 12:43 |
Topaz |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
06-Nov-2015 19:11 |
paulm7010 |
Updated [Time, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
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