What the records say
- When
- 14 Aug 2011
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 25.08° S, 30.18° E
- Description
- Aviation accident
2011 South Africa Piaggio Albatross crash
Aviation accident
On 14 August 2011, a pair of privately owned Piaggio P.166 Albatross aircraft crashed into the Wolkberg mountains in the Limpopo province of South Africa, killing all 13 people on board both planes. The aircraft had departed minutes earlier from Tzaneen, and were flying in formation towards Johannesburg when they struck the mountain in cloud.
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