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Old 3rd Nov 2006, 13:45
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Irene
 
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It was apparently ZS-KOW, a C182 that crashed on the R614 between Tongaat and Wartburg, Valley of a Thousand Hills, KZN. Two occupants dead. ATNS say the FPL was for Ficksburg and SAPS Airwing say that they couldn't reach the crash site in their B3 Squirrel helicopter because the cloud was on the deck and in heavy rain.

I agree RIP, but what is it that drives pilots to kill themselves every year, at the beginning of summer in the valley of a thousand hills? Also, what is so scary about maintaining level wings and best rate of climb until talking to ATC to get vectors towards Australia where there is no cumulo-granites?
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