Cape Town - Cape Town

On May 26, 1971 at 03:00 PM, Cape Town - Cape Town experienced a crash involving BAe 125, operated by South African Air Force, with the event recorded near Devil's Peak Western Cape.

The flight was categorized as demonstration and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

4 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 4, crew fatalities: 4, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The crew was engaged in a local demonstration flight at Cape Town Airport, taking part to an airshow. With two other similar aircraft in a V formation, the Mercurius completed a low pass over Cape Town Airport then proceeded to the west. Shortly later, all three aircraft struck simultaneously the slope of the Devil's Peak shrouded in clouds and located about 15 km west of Cape Town Airport. All three aircraft were totally destroyed and all 11 crew members were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration 01, MSN 25181, year of manufacture 1969.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -33.9546°, 18.4404°.