Service Details
Name:
 RICHTER
Given Name:
 JOHANNES MARTINUS GYSBERT
Initials:
 J M G
Service No:
 86411139PE
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 19 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1999-10-23
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Date of Birth:
 1970-04-16
Age:
 29
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Atlas Oryk #1215, at Kroonstad. Ten people died and 14 were injured in the crash outside Kroonstad. Members of the SA Army, the Kroonstad area commandos, SAP and the SAAF were busy with a crime prevention exercise, Operation Tsoha II, based at a temporary base at Bossiespruit. This flight was one of the short flights that took support personnel on a "thank you" flight. This flight was the third one the Oryx had done that day. The wreckage was found along the Vals River.
Additional
Information:
Husband of Mrs. N. Richter. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Mpumalanga
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Cemetery:
 BETHAL NEW CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 F9

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