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    In Bad Condition CAA AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT REPORT AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

    Dec 17, 2020 6 minutes
    JIM DAVIS

    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’.

    Date of Accident: 22 December 2010

    Registration: ZS-JXE

    Time of Accident: 1520Z

    Type of Aircraft: Cessna R172 K

    Type of Operation: Private

    Pilot-in-command

    Licence Type: Private

    Age: 65

    Licence Valid: Yes

    Total Flying Hours: 503.3

    Hours on Type: 459.2

    Last point of departure:

    Kitty Hawk

    Next point of intended landing:

    Kitty Hawk

    Location of the accident:

    Welbekend, east of Pretoria

    Meteorological Information:

    Surface wind 340/20.

    Temperature 28°C.

    Number of people on board: 1 + 0

    No. of people injured: 1

    No. of people killed: 0

    FLIGHT HISTORY

    The aircraft took off from Kitty Hawk Aerodrome on Runway 01 at 1500Z. Prior to take off the pilot

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