Two people have tragically died in an aircraft accident near the airport in the Brakpan area on Saturday morning just after 07h00. Details to the cause of the crash will be a subject for civil aviation and police to investigate.

When paramedics and the emergency services arrived on scene they found that the light aircraft had crashed nose first into an open field near the airport. Tragically both of the occupants of this aircraft had died on impact due to the extensive injuries that they had sustained.