PICS: Mayor sends condolences after plane crash
The Executive Mayor of Ekurhuleni Cllr Mondli Gungubele on Wednesday expressed his condolences to the families of the three people who died when a light aircraft crashed in Wattville, Benoni.
The plane, which was carrying two passengers and a pilot, crashed on Wednesday seconds after taking off from the Brakpan airfield. It was on its way to a golf resort in Limpopo when it crashed.
Speaking after inspecting the crash site, Gungubele said: “While we may not really know what happened here, it may seem that the Austrian couple were probably on vacation in the country. Listening to the story told by eye-witnesses and looking at the crash site I cannot help it but conclude that this was quite a scary and painful way to lose a life”.
“Actually it is by God’s grace that more people were neither injured nor killed because the plane crashed in an open space between houses in the middle of the Wattville township,” he said.
He thanked community members for their assistance in retrieving the bodies from the wreckage.
Investigations into the cause of the crash had began.
