ZK-BHW — routes, history & safety record

FlightFinder has no observed route profile for this registration. The documented safety events below are available independently of live flight tracking.

Safety history

November 1, 1959Accident
Loss of control during a routine aerial topdressing flight. The pilot was new to ag. flying having made his first topdressing sortie on the 10th of October, and had logged fifty hours of topdressing in the twenty-two subsequent days before he was killed. His flying time in the FU24 was 68 hours. His total time, dual and solo, was 281 hours.
Fletcher FU-24 · 1 fatalities
The investigator concluded that inexperience was the basic cause factor in this accident, and that misuse of control in the execution of a diving turn induced an incipient spin which culminated in a spiral dive without adequate height available for a recovery. Full accident record