Aviation Crash Map

Boeing 737 ZS-ZWU

31 August 2019 · Cape Town, South Africa · No injuries

Summary

On 31 August 2019 at about 07:10 local time, a Boeing 737 registered ZS-ZWU, operated by Comair Limited, was involved in an incident near Cape Town, South Africa. 133 people were on board and nobody was injured. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date
at 07:10
Classification
Incident
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Coordinates
Not recorded
Aircraft
Boeing 737
Registration
ZS-ZWU
Category
Airplane
Operator
Comair Limited
Operating rule
Non-U.S., Commercial
Phase of flight
Not recorded
Aircraft damage
Not recorded
NTSB number
DCA19WA215

People

Nobody was injured.

On board Died Serious Minor Uninjured
133 0 0 0 133

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The government of South Africa has notified the NTSB of an incident involving a BOEING 737 airplane that occurred on August 31, 2019. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the government of South Africa's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.All investigative information will be released by the government of South Africa.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

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