Two killed in East Cape plane crash

[caption id="attachment_117142" align="aligncenter" width="500"] SCENE OF TRAGEDY: Emergency workers inspect the wreckage of the aircraft[/caption]

AN operation is underway to retrieve parts of the plane wreckage that killed two people and left the pilot critically injured in the Langkloof mountain range, near Clarkson, yesterday morning.

Aviation investigators will also be airlifted to the crash site to start their investigation.

The plane was on its way from Graaff-Reinet to Plettenberg Bay.

The alarm was raised after the sole survivor and pilot, Johan van den Bergh, 57, from Pretoria, managed to make a distress phone call to George air traffic control which alerted authorities in Port Elizabeth and Jeffreys Bay.

He said the two other occupants of the plane were unconscious and he could see several wind turbines in the distance.

Killed in the crash were Van den Bergh’s wife, aged 54, and his mother-in-law, aged 75.

Police are not releasing the names of the dead until they have been identified. Van den Bergh’s son was on his way from Cape Town yesterday.