Ex-SAA pilot with 100% safety record died because his passenger was too heavy

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Stewart Lithgow flew everything from military aircraft and jumbo jets to aerobatic biplanes, and in 25,000 hours at the controls he never had an accident. That changed when the retired SAA captain took a tourist for a 30-minute flight around Plettenberg Bay in his motorised glider.

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The 57-year-old passenger, Johannes Dormehl from Midrand, tipped the scales at 134kg when he was weighed during a post-mortem examination, according to an accident report compiled by the Civil Aviation Authority. “The pilot failed to maintain flying speed and, most probably, the glider entered an inadvertent stall due to the wind gradient which the pilot underestimated.

A table from the accident report shows how the weight of Stewart Lithgow's glider was calculated by investigators. The aircraft was 68kg heavier than its maximum operating weight.The accident report said the CAA-approved operating manual for Lithgow's glider “contained several inaccuracies, especially regarding the glider's maximum all-up weight and the mass and centre of gravity”.

“Several contradictions are noted ... regarding the weights of the occupants, which are critical to every flight, especially in cases where an aircraft can only take two occupants.”

 

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