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26th Dec 2002, 20:29
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Rescue personnel have recovered two bodies after a plane went down in heavy mist in the Ingeli mountains near Kokstad in the Free State, police said on Thursday.
Captain Ralph Ruiters said the plane was on its way from Durban to Port St Johns when it crashed. He said locals saw the plane flying near the mountains before they heard "a loud bang".
The bodies of a man and a woman, believed to be husband and wife, were found flung more than 30 metres away from the crash site.
Ruiters said the names of the couple would be withheld until their next-of-kin had been informed.
Rescue personnel were battling to get the bodies down from the area, which he described as inaccessible rocky terrain.
The crash site would be left as undisturbed as possible so that the Civil Aviation Authority could determine the cause of the crash, Ruiters said. - Sapa
Rescue personnel have recovered two bodies after a plane went down in heavy mist in the Ingeli mountains near Kokstad in the Free State, police said on Thursday.
Captain Ralph Ruiters said the plane was on its way from Durban to Port St Johns when it crashed. He said locals saw the plane flying near the mountains before they heard "a loud bang".
The bodies of a man and a woman, believed to be husband and wife, were found flung more than 30 metres away from the crash site.
Ruiters said the names of the couple would be withheld until their next-of-kin had been informed.
Rescue personnel were battling to get the bodies down from the area, which he described as inaccessible rocky terrain.
The crash site would be left as undisturbed as possible so that the Civil Aviation Authority could determine the cause of the crash, Ruiters said. - Sapa