SA acrobatic pilot dies in plane crash at China air show – reports

27 August 2016 - 17:35
By TMG Digital

Former world aerobatics champion and Durban pilot Michel Leusch is reported to have been killed in a plane crash at an air show in China. Netwerk24 reported that the 33-year-old South African pilot was killed when his plane crashed during an air show in north-central China's Gansu province on Saturday morning after failing to pull out of a dive.

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