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Identity
Person No.
31134
Service No.
86471950PS
Last Name
Koster 4
First Name
Petrus Jacobus
Initials
P J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1970 (±1 yr) 220
Age at Death
30
Death Record
Date of Death
27 November 2000 114
Cause code
AA 1,734
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident 1,514
Killed in aircraft accident, crashed at AFB Louis Trichardt in the Northern Province, in Atlas Cheetah C #358. Made no distress call and did not eject. Apparently the aircraft was on finals for landing when it flipped over on its back and crashed
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Captain
Regiment
2 Squadron 109
Corps
South African Air Force 3,524
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,025
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,873
Locality
Limpopo 190
Cemetery
VAALWATER CEMETERY 1
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 1
Unit History
Part of
Rhodesian Air Force - Squadrons
Notes

Husband of Mrs. Corrie A. Koster. ref. 85 years of SAAF. He was on a routine test flight. He was one of the squadron's aerobatic pilots and had taken part in various air shows. Capt. Koster would have left the SAAF in mid-December to take a flying job in

Research notes


5 Sep 2026: Unit "2 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Air Force".

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