| 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 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Durban -
 South Africa
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Johannesburg International Airport (JNB/FAJS) |
| Durban-Louis Botha Airport (DUR/FADN) |
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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