Pilot crashes stolen plane into building in Africa, killing self in reported murder attempt on wife

https://www.foxnews.com/world/pilot...-self-in-reported-murder-attempt-on-wife


A pilot in Botswana reportedly tried to murder his wife by crashing a stolen plane into the building where she was attending a baby shower Saturday, but the man ended up as the only casualty in the horrifying homicide plot -- portions of which were caught on video.

The Matsieng Flying Club said in a news release the incident took place around 6:30 p.m., hours after the pilot was allegedly involved in some sort of domestic dispute.


Members of the club were at an event in a Matsieng Airport building when they noticed a 2016 Beechcraft Kingair B200 aircraft approaching. The witnesses watched as the plane made "a number of low-level fly pasts from different directions," according to the group.

Video posted to Twitter showed one of the low-level passes near the airport.

"Matsieng Flying Club members sensed that the pilot might have had an ulterior motive at the time and ordered an immediate evacuation of the club premises by the approximately fifty attendees," the group said.

The pilot, identified by South Africa's Eyewitness News and The Citizen as Charl Viljoen, allegedly had a physical altercation with his wife at a baby shower held at the airstrip earlier and was asked to leave the event.

Another man, who was not identified, told Eyewitness News that Viljoen then called his friend who was at the venue.

“He phoned his one mate on the ground there who was still at the party and he wanted to know where his wife was," the man told the news outlet. "The guy that he called started shouting so that everybody could run away. And then he flew into the Matsieng clubhouse.”

Everyone in the building was able to get out before the plane slammed into it, according to the group, who added there were no serious injuries to anyone in the vicinity of the crash scene.

That's nuts....

That could have easily went in the other direction and a lot of people could have died.

wasted a perfectly good King Air what a Chit head

Bingo. I concur. Well articulated. X2. Nuts.

A fairly new King Air at that.

And, that was hissy fit in the $4 million range. What a waste of a perfectly good airplane.

yah I wish he had slept on it, could have avoided wasting a perfectly good airplane and possibly his soul. Anytime I've ever seen a dude get that upset it was always because the girl turned out to be a whore. I feel bad for all of them.

cool fly by

Ghost Rider

x2

While I don’t disagree, I remember in 96 when an A10 out of AZ crash in the CO mountains. The pilot was going after his wife and her lover.. he didn’t make it to thier cabin. You have to admit it would of been priceless moment to see wife’s face, when she recognized the plane that just buzzed the house —— “oh shht, that’s my husbands A10”


Unfortunately PJ team had to go into a blizzard though.