South African military plane crash kills 11
1,731 views · Published 7 January 2013 · 0:27 · Indexed 28 October 2026
Channel: News Direct · 2013 · News & Politics
Eleven people were killed on Thursday when a South African military plane crashed in severe weather in a remote area of the eastern Drakensberg mountains, the defense ministry said. The C-47 Dakota, a twin-propeller aircraft, was carrying a crew of six and five passengers and it was confirmed that there were no survivors, a defense ministry statement said. A spokesman also denied reports that the aircraft was carrying medical personnel to attend to former President Nelson Mandela as local media reported. The plane had taken off from Pretoria's Waterkloof Air Force Base on Wednesday night and was flying to Mthatha in the Eastern Cape province when it disappeared, the ministry said. The plane wreckage was found in Drakensberg Mountain, near Ladysmith, in KwaZulu-Natal province some 340km southeast of the Waterkloof air base.
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