{"id":299284,"date":"2020-12-18T06:54:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T04:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=299284"},"modified":"2020-12-18T06:54:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T04:54:44","slug":"police-also-investigating-gyrocopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=299284","title":{"rendered":"Police also investigating gyrocopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ni\u00ebl Terblanch\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>THE Namibian Police has launched a separate investigation into the gyrocopter crash on Thursday to ascertain if there could be any criminal aspect to the tragic incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred on Thursday afternoon about ten kilometres outside Windhoek on the main road to the Hosea Kutako International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hafeni Mushixwa, a senior aircraft accident investigator at the Directorate of Aircraft Accident Investigations confirmed that the Namibian Police have started with a parallel investigation to determine if the matter could have a criminal aspect.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Police also investigating gyrocopter crash\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X5AQGP4O-KA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: A woman narrates what she saw moments before the pilot of a gyrocopter flew into power lines and crashing to the ground on the outskirts of Windhoek. &#8211; Footage: Contributed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DAA will still continue with its safety investigation. We want to learn what happened to prevent similar incidents in the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said that the person piloting the aircraft was flying too low which led to the aircraft hitting the power lines that runs across the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The name of the deceased person and that of the survivor have not been made public yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":299287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police also investigating gyrocopter crash - 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