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The pilots immediately initiated a return to Wonderboom Airport but were unable to complete the manoeuvre and the aircraft crashed into a factory approximately 2 km (1.2 mi) from the airport at about 4:30 pm local time. [3]
The 2018 Pretoria Convair 340 crash on 10 July, took place near Wonderboom Airport minutes after taking off from it. Two people, one among 19 occupants in the plane and one on the ground, died during this crash of the Convair which was making a training flight, with plans to be later flown to the Netherlands. [3]
On 26 July 2014, the first Ahrlac prototype conducted its maiden flight from Wonderboom. [ 12 ] [ 8 ] It was initially deployed on a 20-hour flight test program to contrast computer simulations against data from the prototype's real-world flight performance; during each of these flights, telemetry data was gathered inflight by a specially ...
For the record: 3:22 p.m. Aug. 30, 2023: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Petra Janney flies a Cherokee Piper airplane.She flies a Piper Cherokee. Petra Janney nimbly ...
Pilots who showed promise went on to training at a Service Flying Training School (STFS). The Service Flying Training School provided advanced training for pilots, including fighter and multi-engined aircraft. Other trainees went on to different specialties, such as wireless, navigation or bombing and gunnery.
The crash of Flight 182 was preceded by a near-tragedy almost ten years earlier (also involving Pacific Southwest Airlines), when, on January 15, 1969, a PSA Boeing 727-214 (#N973PS) had collided with Cessna 182L (#N42242) on-ascent from San Francisco International Airport, bound for Ontario International Airport.
John Orminston, 77, and Alan Sansom, 89, flew the planes in the 1980s and said the visit ‘brought back so many fond memories’.
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