Pilot dies in KZN plane crash

March 15, 2020 at 07:13 pm

Police and private rescue services were called to the scene of the aircraft crash in the Umkomazi River valley on Sunday. Top canoeist Mark Perrow was the only occupant and died on the scene. — Police and private rescue services were called to the scene of the aircraft crash in the Umkomazi River valley on Sunday. Top canoeist Mark Perrow was the only occupant and died on the scene. (IPSS Medical Rescue)

A light aircraft crash in KwaZulu-Natal claimed the life of one person on Sunday.

According to Paul Herbst of IPSS Medical Rescue, a group of kayakers spotted the aircraft crashing in the Umkomazi River valley.

When rescue services — including police search and rescue, and the Mountain Club of SA — went to the scene, there was nothing they could do.

“The wreckage was located by the [search and rescue] units and unfortunately this was not a survivable accident,” said Herbst.

It was only the pilot on board, he added.

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