| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | September 24, 2009 |
| Time: | 0800 |
| Location: | Merebank, South Africa |
| Operator: | SA Airlink |
| Flight #: | 8911 |
| Route: | Durban - Pietemaritburg, South Africa |
| AC Type: | British Aerospace Jetstream 41 |
| Registration: | ZS-NRM |
| cn / ln: | 41069 |
| Aboard: | 3 (passengers:0 crew:3) |
| Fatalities: | 1 (passengers:0 crew:1) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The aircraft was on a positioning flight when it suffered an engine failure on take off. The crew declared an emergency but the plane crashed onto a vacant lot, slid though a fence and broke up on the grounds of a school, 400 meters from the runway. Instead of shutting down the malfunctioning engine, the pilot switched off the left engine - which was serviceable. |
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