MECHANICAL error was the cause of death
MECHANICAL error was the cause of death of a young Namibian pilot in May this year at the Hosea Kutako Intentional Airport, the final report on the incident has found. The investigation into the death of Tiaan Oberholzer (21), a Desert Air pilot on May 22, has determined the cause of the accident was due to a "broken left hand magneto ground wire". In the final report issued this month, the Directorate of Aircraft Accident Investigations at the Ministry of Works and Transport, stated that Oberholzer "decided to do a final walk around inspection" after he had loaded four passengers into the Cessna 210 aircraft. He was due to fly the passengers on a safari flight to Doro Nawas and other tourism destinations. The report notes that when the aircraft was parked at the tarmac, Oberholzer decided to do the final walk around inspection and "without knowing that the left hand magneto ground wire was broken, he manually rotated the propeller resulting in a pre-detonatio