At around 5.30pm on Thursday, 13 September, ER24 received reports that an aircraft had crashed in the vicinity of Cato Ridge. Paramedics from Durban and Pietermaritzburg immediately set off to find the scene, which was explained as being in the Valley of 1000 Hills.
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The team took the Cato Ridge turn off and parked their vehicles on the side of the road where they met up with the Fire Department. The three ER24 paramedics and Fire official set off on foot to where locals told them that the aircraft had crashed.
After about an hour of walking up the mountain through dense bush, they arrived at the crash site where they found the wreckage of a light fixed-wing aircraft, extensively damaged and in flames.
All that they could make out was the charred remains of three people, and due to their extensive burns, it was not possible for them to be made out as adults or children, men or women.
It is not clear as to what caused the aircraft to crash, but local who were the first to find the wreckage, had said that it appeared that black smoke was coming from the plane before it crashed.
Thorough investigations will need to be conducted into the cause of the crash.
This is the second light aircraft crash in the KZN area this week.
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