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  • Passenger Films Pretoria Plane Crash From INSIDE The Plane [Video]

    18 Jul 2018 by Nereesha Patel in Aviation, Lifestyle, South Africa, Video
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    A few days back, we reported about the hectic plane crash that took place in Wonderboom, Pretoria, which you can catch up on here.

    Now cellphone footage taken from within the vintage Convair-340 plane when it crashed into a nearby small factory – which left two people dead and the pilot injured – has emerged on social media.

    SAPeople has got the info:

    Social activist Yusuf Abramjee posted the video to Twitter late on Tuesday evening [July 17], saying  “A video taken from inside the plane that crashed after taking-off from the Wonderboom Airport in Pretoria.”

    The plane [built in 1954] had been restored and was on its way from Wonderboom Airport to Pilanesberg, before embarking on a journey across Africa to its final destination of an aerospace museum in the Netherlands.

    If reports are anything to go by, the flight of the 65-year-old plane doubled as a weight test, and as a “joyride” to thank the team involved in the plane’s restoration.

    Unfortunately, the “joyride” immediately turned into a nightmare.

    Here’s the footage in question – be warned, this video might be distressing for sensitive viewers out there:

    A video taken from inside the plane that crashed after taking-off from the Wonderboom Airport in Pretoria. WATCH pic.twitter.com/7s0R5Zp2HQ

    — Yusuf Abramjee (@Abramjee) July 17, 2018

    Absolutely terrifying stuff, especially for the passengers who had to endure this.

    Looking at it, however, people can now get a sense of how the plane ride went so awry so quickly.

    Guy Leitch, an aviation expert, shared his thoughts with News24 last week about what exactly went wrong:

    There were reports from ground observers of problems with the left engine and possibly the propeller on take-off.

    What could have been done differently to prevent the crash from happening? Leitch said it was hard to tell at this stage:

    With hindsight one might say that it should have had more full power runs to check the engine performance and reliability. Also, perhaps a lighter take off with fewer people on a cooler day.

    But by all accounts, the pilots did a good job trying to get it back to the airfield.

    As of right now, the crash is under investigation by the South African Civil Aviation Authority.

    [source:sapeople&news24]

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