A PROBLEM WITH SPACE ADMINISTRATION IN UGANDA
Civil Aviation Athority Intervenes in unnecessary events for personal/political interests, leaving out those that concern its line of duty. If you have been following up, CAA denied ASRP technicians an empty store for temporarily 12hrs and electricity for 30min to complete its space project saying it is illegal offering a store to ASRP for 12 hours, adding on; its illegal too assisting ASRP with power for 30minutes to do quick painting. That day ASRP was reported to all Top CAA Uganda offices for illegally trying to obtain power and storage at Kimaka and they took action by denying ASRP its requests, Mr.Muneza head of Safety at CAA adding on that “ASRP sending projects in space is illegal in Uganda and they should be terminated” This was directly undermining the Ugandan Presidency of which that couldn’t happen as easy as he thought!
Now we have 53 year old planes at the same airfield crash landing, CAA never said a word, took trouble inspecting them after this event on 10/Dec/2012, or suspending them for flight until Re-inspection; meaning planes crash-landing at the same airfield is legal to CAA and fine. This means CAA serves its own interests not protocol/Official guidlines.
If you're liked by some top officials at CAA Uganda, even if something illegal happens, you will remain un-touched but if you are dis-liked by some officials, even if you're doing something good for the country, something patriotic, they will look forward to failing you and classifying you illegal if you're operating on their airfields or Ugandan Airspace. Thats sad but true, and soon or later the Ugandan Presidency will have to look into that because such things in the background are a major development failure cause in Africa/Uganda!
Note that some officials at CAA are so understanding, however their powers are limited in one way or another.
Below are details Of The Story:
In Uganda, Vine Air is a new flying school at Jinja airfield Eastern Uganda. The
CEO Captain Dodd.Katendeigwa made a takeoff at 2:33pm on 10/Dec/2012 with two additional adults excluding him, and two youths likely under 10 years of age. After takeoff, he reached an altitude in between 2000ft-2500ft, then his 1960 year
plane, a Beachcraft; its engine turned off, it ran dead while airborne.
He banked/Turned, attempted to glide it back to the runway, he managed to reach the airfield, as he was about 17ft above the ground before touchdown, it entered a free fall and hit the ground/stalled so hard. Then it bounced, then landed again nose wheel first barely missing a prop strike. This event was witnessed by various people including a CAA offical; however we are all grateful no injuries to the crew occurred, just shock. You could clearly view captain Dodds shirt vibrating because of shock, after this incident, Civil Aviation Authority never took trouble inspecting “The Vine Air” 3 planes prior to starting its flight school next year 2013.
These planes are over 53 years old, it raises a question, how sure are we that they won’t cause deaths or serious injury to the pilot students? Civil Aviation Authority Uganda will definitely be the one to blame for a Ugandan flying school not meeting safety standards, if anything was to happen, first thing CAA would do is deny that it wasn't aware of this incident. Simple as that!
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Below is a Picture taken around 15 minutes after the crash-land
Kimaka Airfield in Jinja, East Uganda/Busoga next to the Nile River
25 May
