9-passenger company plane crashes in South Africa
17:45, 9 February 2011
JOHANNESBURG. February 9. KAZINFORM South African rescuers say they have recovered eight bodies after a plane carrying nine people crashed in a nature reserve 320 miles east of Cape Town; Kazinform refers to Arab News.
National Rescue Service spokesman Craig Lambinon says debris from the plane, missing for 14 hours, was found early Wednesday morning. He says no survivors have been found.
The single-engine plane was a company plane owned by Johannesburg-based Italtile Ltd. Lambinon says there was heavy fog, but the cause of the crash is still under investigation. The plane was flying between two small airports in South Africa; Kazinform cites Arab News.
See www.arabnews.com