- Date
- October 9, 2021, 11:50 local (11:50 UTC)
- Place
- Cape Town, South Africa · grass field
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- ZU-RDXRotoway International Executive 162F
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Loss of engine power (partial)
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 104151
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Loss of engine power (partial)All aircraft: 1,858 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- ZU-RDX
- Reported as
- Rotoway International Executive 162F
- Category
- Helicopter, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 6911
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Departed
- Morning Star
- Destination
- Western Cape Province