Greetings
If you read back on all the posts regarding the ZS-UKU incident; all the
information we have available has been posted (See KRNet Archives)
There is also a local South African forum where the incident is being
discussed and the pertinent info has been shared there too :
https://avcom.co
Found this, was a fatal crash with mention of "wing failure"... this is
well worth following as I have never heard of a KR wing failure in the 30+
years of following this design.
-Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
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hi rudi, thanks! So ZS-UKU spar failed and it crashed.
what additional detail can you tell us about the spar fail crash of ZS-UKu?
thank you!
On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 10:45 PM Rudi Venter wrote:
> OK, let me try again
>
> Sakkie Halgreen died in a crash of a KR2 that was not ZS-UKU, he d
OK, let me try again
Sakkie Halgreen died in a crash of a KR2 that was not ZS-UKU, he did own
ZS-UKU at that stage, he was the original builder
ZS-UKU, a KR2, was not involved in a crash BEFORE the spar failed resulting
in the recent crash.
Rudi
On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 10:12 PM Kayak wro
On 11/9/2021 2:11 PM, Kayak wrote:
What happened with ZS-UKU spar, and how
did the spar fail with no crash?
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That's the answer we're waiting for. We're talking two separate
crashes, one a pilot and passenger killed in a flat spi
Hi Rudi, Now I am double confused. What happened with ZS-UKU spar, and how
did the spar fail with no crash?
On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 2:46 PM Rudi Venter wrote:
ZS-UKU did have a spar failure and it was a KR2 but it had no crash history.
>
> Rudi
>
-Please see LIST
No, ZS-UKU was a KR2, what I am saying is that Sakkie Halgreen (builder
and original owner of ZS-UKU) died in a crash of a KR2 that went into a
flat spin but that plane was not ZS-UKU.
ZS-UKU did have a spar failure and it was a KR2 but it had no crash history.
Rudi
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So the spar failure was not from a KR2 aircraft at all, correct?! This puts
back the KR2 spar in-flight failure record back to ZERO, correct?!
This is a critical piece of accident precursor data on structural integrity
failure, so we need every bit of detail information that is accurate and
not mi
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