Bad news:
China crash: Body found
28/05/2004 13:25 - (SA)
Beijing - A small South African plane crashed on Friday in southern China, killing the pilot, the only person on board, the government said.
The plane, which was on a global charity mission, took off from the southern city of Guilin in the morning and was headed to Changsha in the neighboyring province of Hunan, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Bad weather forced the pilot to divert to Wuhan, the capital of the adjacent Hubei province, but the plane crashed into a lake before it could get there, Xinhua said.
The report did not provide any other details about the pilot or his mission.
Some 800 police officers, firemen and other rescue workers searched the banks of Dongting Lake and recovered the pilot's body on Friday evening, the agency said.