A father and son had a narrow escape this morning after the light aircraft the father was flying had to do and emergency landing in to a farm near Laboria. ER24 received the call via the National Call centre on 084 124, for a light aircraft that had crashed landed onto a make shift island [...]
Two men had a lucky escape when their light aircraft had to make an emergency landing in Aalwyndal, Mossel Bay, on Saturday afternoon. Pilot Roger Brink and Dirk Uys, the owner of the plane, were injured. Emergency equipment had to be used to free them from the wreckage, after which they were taken to hospitals [...]
A light aircraft performing a test flight suddenly needed to make an emergency landing after the aircraft allegedly experienced mechanical failure. The pilot allegedly needed to perform evasive maneuvers for overlying power lines while also trying to control the aircraft. Fortunately he was able to steer the aircraft underneath the lines and further into an [...]
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 [...]
Paramedics from several emergency response teams have rushed to Addington Beach Durban where it appeared that a small aircraft made an emergency landing. Fortunately neither the pilot nor co-pilot suffered injuries.
Two women were injured when a plane crashed after take-off at Louis Trichardt airstrip on Tuesday morning, Limpopo police said. The pilot and passenger, both in their 50s, took off but the plane failed to gain altitude before tumbling to the ground, Captain Maano Sadiki said. Witnesses saw the plane coming to a halt a [...]
The Arrive Alive Website received photos of a narrow escape by two road safety friends after they were forced to make an emergency landing in a small aircraft. They experienced engine vibrations, loss of power and had to perform an emergency landing on the fire path of a farm on Thursday afternoon. Andre Botha, who [...]
Two men were injured when their light aircraft ditched in the shallows off the coast of Tinley Manor, North of Durban, this afternoon. It is unknown what prompted the two men to eject during the test flight. Both men safely ejected and their parachutes deployed. As they descended both were injured when they made contact [...]
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