Theft and crash of a Beechcraft King Air B200 in March 2019
Kalahari Air Services Beechcraft King Air · Pilot suicide
From Sir Seretse Khama International Airport (GBE) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Unknown
Beechcraft King Air
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft KING AIR
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- A2-MBM
- Operator
- Kalahari Air Services
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Sir Seretse Khama International Airport (GBE)To not recorded
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The theft and crash of a Beechcraft King Air B200 with the registration A2-MBM on 23 March 2019 was caused by the South African Charl Viljoen, an employee of the aviation company Kalahari Air Services.
According to reports, the 37-year-old is said to have stolen the aircraft of his employer Kalahari Air Services at the nearby Gaborone-Sir Seretse Khama Airport and then to have flown it into a hangar and the tower of Matsieng Airfield near Rasesa in the south-east of the country. Beforehand, possibly while drunk, he is said to have made sure by telephone that his wife, with whom he had previously had an argument, was in the building. After the suspicious-sounding call, the person called is said to have brought everyone out of the building to safety.
The air accident is being investigated by the Botswana Directorate of Accident Investigation of the Ministry of Transport.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Diebstahl und Absturz einer Beechcraft King Air B200 im März 2019” (revision 254869354, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Diebstahl und Absturz einer Beechcraft King Air B200 im März 2019
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 254869354 · 2025-04-05 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q65233788
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "Diebstahl und Absturz einer Beechcraft King Air B200 im März 2019" (page 10744460, revision 254869354), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.