2011 South Africa Piaggio Albatross crash
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2011 South Africa Piaggio Albatross crash
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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. The subsequent investigation found no evidence of any technical problem with the aircraft and cited adverse weather and poor flight planning as factors in
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Aviation accident
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_South_Africa_Piaggio_Albatross_crash
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2023-07-15T12:13:25Z
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