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The aircraft was carrying 16 passengers and had a crew of three: two pilots and a flight engineer. The two pilots were Australian; Captain Ross Kelly, 65, was a retired Qantas A380 senior check captain, while First Officer Douglas Haywood, 58, was a check-and-training captain for the airline's fleet of Airbus A380s. [8]
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]
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.
AMI DC-3-65TP ZS-NKK of Speed Service Couriers crashed on take-off from Wonderboom Airport, Pretoria, South Africa. The aircraft had been in maintenance and the elevator trim had been left in the full nose-up position. The pilot failed to carry out pre-flight checks and did not notice the position of the trim tab. One of the two crew was killed.
Magee was descending at the time. At the inquiry afterwards a farmer testified that he saw the Spitfire pilot struggling to push back the canopy. The pilot stood up to jump from the plane but was too close to the ground for his parachute to open, and died on impact. Magee is buried at Holy Cross, Scopwick Cemetery in Lincolnshire, England. [181]
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 ...
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Louis Edward "Lou" Curdes (November 2, 1919 – February 5, 1995) was an American flying ace of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II who held the unusual distinctions of scoring an official and intentional air-to-air kill against another American aircraft as well as shooting down at least one aircraft from each of the major Axis powers.