The Cessna Citation flight inspection aircraft which crashed near Friemersheim on January 23 2020, killing all three crew members on board.Seconds before crashing into a Garden Route mountain, a Civil Aviation Authority aircraft went into a mysterious dive, a preliminary accident report reveals.
Three seconds before it hit a mountainside near Friemersheim at 530km/h, the nose of the 33-year-old Cessna pitched up, but it was too late to avoid disaster.The three crew members were killed on impact, wreckage was scattered over a 270m radius and the crash set mountain vegetation on fire. The three CAA staff who were killed were Captain Thabiso Collins Tolo, 49, first officer Tebogo Caroline Lekalakala, 33, and flight inspector Gugu Comfort Mnguni, 36.
The Cessna did not have a cockpit voice recorder, meaning investigators were not able to determine if the plane’s terrain avoidance warning system alerted the crew that they were too near the mountain.
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