Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat, ZU-EFH: Accident occurred January 01, 2013 in Phalaborwa, Limpopo - South Africa

The South African Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has sent a team to investigate yesterday's plane crash that killed two people in Phalaborwa in Limpopo.   

Johan Horen and Herbert Hancker, two senior officials at Foskor and PMC mining companies, died when their light aircraft crashed during take-off.

CAA's spokesperson Phindiwe Gwebu says the investigation could take a while before it can be concluded.

“The investigation takes a bit of a time to conclude. And we do suspect in such cases, normally, it takes more than 6 months to conclude.”

Gwebu says they will have to wait for the post-mortems, and also send parts from the aircraft for testing.

Police spokesperson, Ronel Otto, says the accident happened during take-off.



Police have released the names of the two men who died in a plane crash in Phalaborwa, in Limpopo earlier today.  They were Johan Horn and Herbert Hanker. The two were senior officials of the Foskor and PMC mining companies.

One of the first people to arrive at the scene, Jaco Gericke says there was nothing they could do.

“I was contacted by a petrol attendant, he saw the plane going down, so it’s very close to my house, on arrival we saw the plane wreckage on fire, we could see at least one person at that moment, so the fire department arrived, we doused the flames. Ja it was very horrific, could do nothing for them, it was sad it was sad,” says Gericke.

Meanwhile police spokesperson, Ronel Otto, says the accident happened during take-off.  


Otto says they are investigating:  

“According to the information we received, the plane crashed just after taking off from the Phalaborwa airfield. It burst into flames following the impact of the crash. Police have opened an inquest case but the civil aviation authority will investigate the cause of the crash.”



Two people died after the aircraft they were traveling in crashed and burst into flames in Phalaborwa on Tuesday, Limpopo police said.

"It departed from [the] Phalaborwa airfield. Just after it took off, it crashed, " police spokeswoman Lt-Col Ronel Otto said.

"It also burst into flames".

She said a man aged, 42, and another, aged 60, died in the early morning crash.

Civil aviation authorities would investigate the cause of the crash.

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