South Africa's high commissioner to Pakistan miraculously survived a helicopter crash that killed seven people, including other diplomats and their wives. Mpendulo Jele, who called his escape a miracle, described how the Mi-17 military helicopter vibrated before falling from the sky on Friday .Jele was among diplomats from 30 countries and their spouses on a three-day visit to a development project at which they were to meet Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif."There was a major vibration in the air and then [the helicopter] took a vicious circle. It went up and then went down."In the next moment it just crumbled. It's a miracle . I just walked out without a scratch," Jele told Pakistani media on Saturday.The helicopter crashed into an empty school, killing seven people including the ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines, and the wives of the Malaysian and Indonesian ambassadors.Spokesman for the Department of International Relations and Co-operation Clayson Monyela said yesterday that Jele was still in Pakistan and back at work.The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the heads of mission of more than 30 countries, their families and senior Pakistani officials had been flown to Gilgit and then to Naltar in four Mi-17 helicopters."One of the helicopters crashed. It was carrying 17 people," said the ministry.It said that Norwegian envoy Leif H Larsen, Philippines envoy Domingo D Lucenario Jr, the wives of the Malaysian and the Indonesian ambassadors, and two pilots and another crew member had been killed."The injured ambassadors of Indonesia, the Netherlands, Malaysia and Poland were transported back on a special C-130 flight. The rest of the diplomats returned safely to Rawalpindi this morning," the ministry said on Saturday.It said Sharif had returned to the capital, Islamabad.The Taliban claimed it had shot down the aircraft with a ground-to-air missile in an attempt to assassinate the Pakistani prime minister, but the country's Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman said the crash was the result of a mechanical fault...