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Identity
Person No.
31839
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Bongani
Initials
B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Died in a helicopter crash. Westland Augusta A109, tail No #4022, crashed into the Woodstock dam, near Bergville, KZN on route to Dragon Peaks Park for mountain training exercises
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Captain
Regiment
Unknown
Secondary Unit
Air Force
Defence Force
SANDF 1,022
South African National Defence Force
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Part of
Notes

Ref SANDF 1998 RoH

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '94671328' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 31838 to 31839 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (31838, Mdleleni, Gift Lafangathi (N L)). A value repeated down an unbroken block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number; the pattern holds across 850 such runs on this roll and is independently confirmed by Mike Sandham's research log, which attaches such numbers to the head of the run 167 times against 6 contradictions (all examined). No replacement is guessed: this man's real service number is simply not known, and a blank field says so honestly where another man's number did not.

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