# NTSB GAA26WA008: Piper PA28, Pilanesberg, South Africa, October 10, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: October 10, 2025, 12:15 local (12:15 UTC)
- Place: Pilanesberg, South Africa · On a private game farm known
as Predator World
- Coordinates: -25.3355, 27.171667 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-25.3355&lon=27.1717&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Initial climb](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/350) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Initial climb: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT) ](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 201852
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA26WA008
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/201852/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA26WA008

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Initial climb: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT) ](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 10,189 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: ZS-FTS (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: 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

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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