Plane with 164 aboard just 30m from midair collision at King Phalo Airport

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A jet with 164 people on board came within 30m of disaster when a student pilot at the controls of a light aircraft mixed up “left” and right”.

The Safair Boeing 737-400 involved in a near-miss with a light aircraft flown by a student pilot at East London airport on August 25 2021.

The Piper Cherokee from 43 Air School in Port Alfred which was involved in the near-miss with a Safair jet at East London airport on August 25 2021.The pilot, identified in the report as a Ghanaian with “expert” English skills, was on a solo navigational training flight from Port Alfred in a four-seater Piper Cherokee owned by 43 Air School.

A radar image from the CAA report shows"vertical separation [between the planes] was around 100ft and no lateral separation" at 7.25:39am on August 25 2021.The Safair jet would have been flying at around 250km/h when the student pilot passed about 30m directly overhead as the jet made its final approach at around 132m above the ground.

 

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