Cessna 210 aircraft crashes after take-off
Posted 8th September 2008 at 12:23 AM by NewsTracker
WINDHOEK, 07 SEP (NAMPA) – A Cessna 210 aircraft crashed just after take-off on Sunday morning.
The Chief Air Traffic Control Officer of the Namibian Directorate of Civil Aviation (DCA), Christian Sell, told Nampa that the plane crashed at 09h00 this morning.
He said there were five people on board - four passengers and a pilot. The aircraft crashed along 22 Papegaaien Road in Hochlandpark, Windhoek. The plane was departing from Windhoek's Eros airport to the Kunene Region.
"Four people were injured, one of whom was seriously injured, whose injuries consisted of internal injuries," said Sell.
Sell said he had spoken to the pilot, who said the cause of the accident was engine failure after take-off.
The matter will still be investigated.
"The aircraft is a complete write-off. When one looks at the aircraft, it is amazing that these people weren't more seriously injured," said Sell.
Meanwhile, this latest accident brings the number of similar crashes this year alone to an astonishing five.
A female pilot and four passengers who were on board a plane on 5 August left the scene with light injuries after their Cessna-310 plunged to the earth between 08h00 and 09h00 that morning near the Ferreira Gardens nursery.
Aircraft crashes have become fairly common in Namibia.
A light Cessna 210 single-engine aircraft crashed in Windhoek's southern industrial area on 09 May this year, leaving five people injured. Another Cessna crashed in the dunes at the Namibian coast soon afterwards.
On 11 January, five Israeli businessmen and a Namibian pilot died when a plane belonging to Atlantic Aviation crashed into a house in the Olympia suburb.
Aviation authorities have been carrying out investigations into the crashes, but these probes are either not yet concluded or the findings have not been made known to the public.
(NAMPA)
The Chief Air Traffic Control Officer of the Namibian Directorate of Civil Aviation (DCA), Christian Sell, told Nampa that the plane crashed at 09h00 this morning.
He said there were five people on board - four passengers and a pilot. The aircraft crashed along 22 Papegaaien Road in Hochlandpark, Windhoek. The plane was departing from Windhoek's Eros airport to the Kunene Region.
"Four people were injured, one of whom was seriously injured, whose injuries consisted of internal injuries," said Sell.
Sell said he had spoken to the pilot, who said the cause of the accident was engine failure after take-off.
The matter will still be investigated.
"The aircraft is a complete write-off. When one looks at the aircraft, it is amazing that these people weren't more seriously injured," said Sell.
Meanwhile, this latest accident brings the number of similar crashes this year alone to an astonishing five.
A female pilot and four passengers who were on board a plane on 5 August left the scene with light injuries after their Cessna-310 plunged to the earth between 08h00 and 09h00 that morning near the Ferreira Gardens nursery.
Aircraft crashes have become fairly common in Namibia.
A light Cessna 210 single-engine aircraft crashed in Windhoek's southern industrial area on 09 May this year, leaving five people injured. Another Cessna crashed in the dunes at the Namibian coast soon afterwards.
On 11 January, five Israeli businessmen and a Namibian pilot died when a plane belonging to Atlantic Aviation crashed into a house in the Olympia suburb.
Aviation authorities have been carrying out investigations into the crashes, but these probes are either not yet concluded or the findings have not been made known to the public.
(NAMPA)
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