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Wishing Glen a speedy recovery
Aerobatic champ takes a tumble
17/06/2005 14:24 - (SA)
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Margate - World aerobatic champion Glen Dell was involved in a plane crash at Margate on Friday, on the eve of an air show at the South Coast town.
Organiser Vicky Erasmus told Sapa that Dell's aircraft, a Flick Extra 300, came down in a sugarcane field adjacent to the Margate airport.
Dell was rushed to St Augustine's Hospital in Durban.
SABC radio news reported that eye witness Renier Bezuidenhout had watched the plane making "magnificent manoeuvres".
"He was doing magnificent tricks. All of a sudden there was smoke coming out of his engine."
Dell had been involved in a training camp preceeding the show, said Erasmus.
Sister Tessa Goldstone of the hospital's trauma unit said he arrived at 14:20.
"He is in pain, but stable. We have no X-rays as yet," she said.
Edited by Tisha Steyn