The wreckage of an aircraft, believed to be that of a plane that went missing over Plettenberg Bay on the Garden Route, has been found, says the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI).
“The wreckage was located just off shore of the Robberg Nature Reserve [on Wednesday morning],” NSRI spokesman Craig Lambinon told Sapa on Wednesday morning.
“At this stage the operation is still being treated as a search and rescue with any hope to find survivors,” he said.
An aircraft that had been travelling from Queenstown to Plettenberg Bay on Tuesday disappeared while trying to land near the Robberg Nature Reserve in heavy fog.
The single-engine aircraft was carrying two crew and seven employees of Italtile Ltd, the company’s spokeswoman Del-Maree English said.