Police aircraft crash at Rand Airport leaves five people dead, one injured

[RedViking]

How far they have fallen.....

 

[Segg]

As shared on other social media. RIP to those who died.

Looks like metal fatigue, most pertinent pics inserted, others attached.

 

[rvZA]

Definitely metal fatigue. Minimum maintenance done. Aircraft was simply declared airworthy. Probably happening across the board at all airlines in this country too.

 

[Flanders]

Tragic and scary - absolutely no way to recover or even react. Here's a video of catastrophic failure to a C-130 from metal fatigue:

 

[Segg]

Definitely metal fatigue. Minimum maintenance done. Aircraft was simply declared airworthy. Probably happening across the board at all airlines in this country too.

Being intimately involved in the industry myself I can assure you maintaince is still taken seriously, when the sparky signs the piece of paper saying an aircraft is airworthy it is binding.

I don't know what kind of NDT inspections are done on the PC6 strut, if any are even required but the bare minimum legal (safe) requirement of maintenance would have been completed if the aircraft was maintained where I'm pretty sure it was maintained.

If the cops have their own AMO then I'd be suspicious, but I don't they they do.

 

[rvZA]

Being intimately involved in the industry myself I can assure you maintaince is still taken seriously, when the sparky signs the piece of paper saying an aircraft is airworthy it is binding.

I don't know what kind of NDT inspections are done on the PC6 strut, if any are even required but the bare minimum legal (safe) requirement of maintenance would have been completed if the aircraft was maintained where I'm pretty sure it was maintained.

If the cops have their own AMO then I'd be suspicious, but I don't they they do.

Having spoken to an investigator and seeing the parts, it is clear that maintenance was not an issue at all - let alone being performed. If it was, we would not have been here today discussing this.

 

[ForceFate]

Definitely metal fatigue. Minimum maintenance done. Aircraft was simply declared airworthy. Probably happening across the board at all airlines in this country too.

What?

 

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Further to my comments on inspections required on the PC-6

 

[wingnut771]

Further to my comments on inspections required on the PC-6
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What is an Emer Gency Airwor Thiness Directi Ve?

 

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What is an Emer Gency Airwor Thiness Directi Ve?

In a nutshell this was a known issue on the porters as far back as 2007

 

[ToxicBunny]

Having spoken to an investigator and seeing the parts, it is clear that maintenance was not an issue at all - let alone being performed. If it was, we would not have been here today discussing this.

Yeah Id put about 50c that you haven't spoken to any investigators let alone even have a clue who is investigating this tragedy

 

[wingnut771]

In a nutshell this was a known issue on the porters as far back as 2007

Thanks, I was just poking fun at the crap formatting of the heading of the report.