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Original Post Date: 2010-04-06 Time: 14:00:01 Posted By: News Poster
By Adam Hartman
WINDHOEK resident Petrus van der Walt (25) was killed on Thursday afternoon when the six-seat Cessna 210 he was flying crashed near the Trekkopje Mine’s desalination pipeline near Wlotzkasbaken.
This was the first fatal plane accident in Namibia this year.
Pieces of the plane were scattered across a three-kilometre radius. Van der Walt’s body was found inside the shattered cockpit.
Police, fire brigade and paramedic services were at the scene, as were representatives of the companies Sefofane Namibia and Wilderness Safaris.
The cause of the accident is still unknown.
The Managing Director of Sefofane Namibia, Ian du Rand, issued a press statement on Friday confirming the accident, but he did not give much detail.
Du Rand confirmed the pilot’s name and said that Van der Walt was married, with no children.
Van der Walt was flying from Damaraland to Swakopmund when the accident took place, according to Du Rand.
He could not say whether the pilot had made any emergency call before the crash.
According to Chief Inspector Chris Kalimbula of the Erongo Police, the plane had just dropped off passengers at Twyfelfontein in Damaraland before returning to Swakopmund. It was supposed to land at Swakopmund at 12h45.
Kalimbula said the pilot’s 22-year-old wife had arrived in Swakop-mund to identify her husband’s body. The couple were apparently newlyweds.
“The Police have launched an inquest into the cause of death while the Directorate of Aircraft Accident Investigations is investigating the cause of the accident,” Kalimbula said.
The Deputy Director of Aircraft Accident Investigations, Theo Shilongo, yesterday told The Namibian that the emergency locator of the plane had sent a signal to the company’s office in Johannesburg at around 12h40 that something was wrong. He said he received a message at about 15h00 that a plane’s wreckage had been found near Wlotzkasbaken.
Experts from various aviation companies – including Sefofane representatives from South Africa and Botswana – were at the scene of the accident on Friday.
“Due to the large area over which the wreckage was scattered, our first assumption was that the pilot was flying low and may have hit a ridge at high speed but we could not see any point of impact on the ridge,” Shilongo said.
“Maybe the plane crashed into a large bird in the air but then we would have found feathers and blood on the wreckage, and we did not find any.”
After further investigation, it was speculated that the cockpit door might not have been closed properly when the pilot took off from Twyfelfontein at 11h26 on Thursday.
When the plane turned to descend to Swakop-mund, it is suspected that luggage or any other item may have pushed the door open.
“An object could have flown out and hit and broken off the horizontal stabiliser. This would have destabilised the plane which could have caused it to dive at a very high speed towards the earth, causing the parts to break off before impact,” Shilongo said.
“What we are nearly sure of is that the plane disintegrated in the air.”
He said the investigation was continuing.
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Original date published: 6 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004060742.html?viewall=1