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Date:	Sunday 13 April 2025
Time:	09:43 LT
Type:	Piper PA-60-601P Aerostar
Owner/operator:	Private
Registration:	D-ICEL
MSN:	61P-0577-79632
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Salzgitter -    Germany
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Salzgitter-Drutte Airfield (EDVS)
Destination airport:	Hildesheim Airfield (EDVM)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
A Piper PA-60-601P Aerostar crashed on the area of the Salzgitter steel plant just after takeoff from Salzgitter-Drütte Airfield (EDVS).
Both occupants perished and the aircraft was destroyed.

An eyewitness reported that the aircraft pitched up after takeoff and then crashed.

EDVS has 535m runway length plus 39m of paved area in front of runway 25 which may be used for take-off. MTOM are 2000kg.

Date:	Saturday 12 April 2025
Time:	c. 16:00 LT
Type:	Slick 540
Owner/operator:	Marksmen Aerobatic Team
Registration:	ZU-TNT
MSN:	540-0606
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	E of Kitty Hawk Aerodrome (FAKT), Pretoria -    South Africa
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
A Slick 540 collided with terrain east of Kitty Hawk Aerodrome (FAKT), Pretoria.
The sole pilot, who was not part of the Marksmen team, perished and the aircraft was destroyed.

Date:	Saturday 12 April 2025
Time:	c. 12:05 LT
Type:	Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 Solitaire
Owner/operator:	Dynamic Spine Solutions LLC
Registration:	N635TA
MSN:	458SA
Year of manufacture:	1985
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Copake, NY -    United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	White Plains-Westchester County Airport, NY (HPN/KHPN)
Destination airport:	Columbia County Airport (1B1), Hudson, NY
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
A Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 Solitaire crashed near Copake, New York, following a missed approach to Columbia County Airport (1B1), Hudson, NY. The six occupants perished and the aircraft was destroyed.

The NTSB reported that the aircraft crashed at a high rate of descent in a flat agricultural field.