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    Dec 16, 2021 5 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’.

    Aiming to make safer pilots of us, here veteran instructor Jim Davis looks at extracts from official CAA Accident Reports from his homeland of South Africa and analyses why things went wrong and how we may all avoid making similar mistakes.

    1 Seneca down in Bethlehem

    CAA ACCIDENT REPORT AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

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

    Aircraft Registration: ZS-KFT

    Date of Accident: 8 October 2012

    Time of Accident: 1146Z

    Type of Aircraft: Piper-34-200T

    Private (Part 91)

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