The South African Civil Aviation Authority on Friday said its new centralised safety reporting system should help prevent any future aircraft disasters. The new technology was implemented this week. It provides a platform for the public, pilots and air traffic controllers to report unsafe activities and situations that could lead to an accident. CAA spokesperson [...]
Normal operation resumed at Pretoria’s Wonderboom Airport on Wednesday a day after two planes collided, critically injuring three people, the City of Tshwane said. Spokesperson Console Tleane said the runway was cleared and opened at 10am following Tuesday’s accident between two light aircraft, a Jabiru and a Piper. “One of the three people injured is [...]
A 47-year-old man was fatally injured when his microlight hit overhead cables and crashed outside Brits, near Pretoria, officials said on Monday. The microlight came down in a field, 40km outside of Brits at 09:00, said ER24 spokesperson Vanessa Jackson. Hartbeespoort rescue workers got to the scene to find the pilot with severe head, chest, [...]
The Arrive Alive Website received an email earlier today with the following heading: “Brace yourself before looking at the below image. A pilot at low level has no control over his aircraft. It narrowly misses a crowd gathered for the airshow and slams into four buildings. One can only imagine the horror of the occupants [...]
Two people have tragically died in an aircraft accident near the airport in the Brakpan area this morning just after 07h00. Details to the cause of the crash will be a subject for civil aviation and police to investigate. When paramedics and the emergency services arrived on scene they found that the light aircraft had [...]
Searchers have found the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in Hartbeespoort in North West on Wednesday morning, the Civilian Aviation Authority (CAA) said. The wreckage was found by police helicopter at about 10:15, said CAA spokesperson Phindile Gwebu. Netcare 911 paramedics and the emergency services arrived on scene and had to scale the [...]
An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 people on board crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after taking off from Beirut International Airport in the early hours of this morning, airport sources said. The Boeing 737-800 disappeared off the radar some five minutes after taking off, shortly after its scheduled departure time of 2:10 am, during [...]
A man in his 60’s was seriously injured when his micro–light crashed while he was attempting to take off from the Tempe airport just outside Bloemfontein this evening. Details of the crash stays a subject for civil aviation to investigate, however it is purported that the micro-light veered off the runway and crashed, injuring the [...]
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