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    Too Fast and too Inexperienced

    Aug 19, 2019 3 minutes
    JIM DAVIS

    This discussion contains extracts from the SACAA’s accident report. It is compiled in the interest of promoting of aviation safety and not to establish legal liability.

    Jim Davis has 15,000 hours of immensely varied flying experience, including 10,000 hours civil and military flying instruction. He is an established author, his current projects being an instructors’ manual and a collection of Air Accident analyses, called ‘Choose not to Crash’.

    Aircraft Registration: ZS-JGY

    Date of Accident: 9 March 2008

    Time of Accident: 1330Z

    Type of Aircraft: Beech 58

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