|
|
|
CA18/2/3/7240
|
|||||||||||||
SOUTH AFRICAN CIVIL AVIATION
AUTHORITY
ACCIDENT
REPORT – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Date of
Accident |
27/8/2000 |
Time
of Accident |
1100Z |
||||||||||||
|
Aircraft
Registration |
ZS-HNA |
Type of
Aircraft |
ENSTROM |
||||||||||||
|
Name of
Owner |
Name and
Number of Operator |
||||||||||||||
|
PLASTIC
PACK (PTY)LTD |
PRIVATE |
||||||||||||||
|
Pilot-in-command
Licence Type |
Private |
Age |
40 |
Licence
Valid
|
YES |
||||||||||
|
Pilot-in-command
Flying Experience |
Total
Flying Hours |
240 |
Hours on Type |
60 |
|||||||||||
|
Last point
of departure |
FAWB |
||||||||||||||
Next
point of intended landing
|
FAPI |
||||||||||||||
|
Location of
the accident site with reference to easily defined geographical points (GPS
readings if possible) |
|||||||||||||||
|
Sondela
Game Reserve near Warmbaths |
|||||||||||||||
|
Meteorological
Information |
Weather
was fine (wind ± 10 kts) |
||||||||||||||
|
Number of
people on board |
1+1 |
No.
of people injured
|
0
|
No.
of people killed
|
0 |
||||||||||
Synopsis
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
According
to the pilot he and a passenger were on their way to Pietersburg when he
decided to visit some friends en route, at Sondela Game Reserve, near
Warmbaths. The pilot stated that he misjudged the wind direction and speed during the approach for landing at Sondela. According to him the helicopter moved forward as he went into the hover and towards some trees and in the process he allowed the rotor RPM to decay to a point where he was unable to control the helicopter and subsequently impacted the tree with the main rotor blades. |
|||||||||||||||
Probable
Cause
|
|||||||||||||||
|
The
pilot allowed the main rotor rpm to decay to a point where he was unable to
control the helicopter and subsequently contacted a tree. |
|||||||||||||||
