- Date
- October 10, 2025, 12:15 local (12:15 UTC)
- Place
- Pilanesberg, South Africa · On a private game farm known as Predator World
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- ZS-FTSPiper PA28
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT)
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 201852
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- ZS-FTS
- Reported as
- Piper PA28
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Operator
- Vulcan Aviation
- Registered owner
- Vulcan Aviation
- Airport
- FAPN · Pilanesberg International Airport