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Pretoria – A Dutch aerospace museum said it was shocked to learn that a plane crash in Tshwane had left one person dead and 20 wounded.
The vintage aircraft crashed on Tuesday after taking off during a test flight from the Wonderboom Airport in Pretoria
] The Convair plane – built in 1954 – was soon to be flown by Aviodrome air museum, near the city of Lelystad in the Netherlands, after being renovated at the small airport.
The images on the site show that the plane was broken into several pieces while the paramedics helped survivors get out of the plane. Firefighters approached the manure wreckage.
"ER24 doctors and other services are at the scene of a plane crash at Wonderboom in Pretoria," said Russell Meiring, spokesman for the medical service ER24.
He later confirmed to IOL that one person had died as a result of the accident.
[VIDEO] – Aerial view of the ER24 Oneplan helicopter from the plane crash of #Wonderboom . @ewnupdates @eNCA @JacunaNews @day_maine @SABCNewsOnline @ ArriveAlive @FatalMoves pic.twitter.com/nxleOtB10s– ER24 EMS (Pty) Ltd. (@ ER24EMS) July 10, 2018
The Aviodrome Aerospace theme park in the Netherlands said on his Facebook page that he was "enormously shocked" by the crash.
The plane, which was expected at Aviodrome, "crashed in South Africa during takeoff on a test flight," he says.
He said the Convair was a US pbadenger plane that can carry 44 people. had been brought to Aviodrome via East Africa, through Egypt, Croatia, Austria and the Netherlands.
The aircraft was marked Martin's Air Charter, but no information was available on the airline.
Jurgen Kotze, Chief The Emer-G-Med Service Operations Manager stated that the accident had occurred near the Wonderboom Airport, on Moloto Road
. One of the pilots … and he will be flown to a Netcare hospital. "
" Some patients have already been transferred and some are still on the scene. "
Kabelo, spokesman for South African Civil Aviation Ledwaba said that his investigators were on the scene and would make a statement
AFP and IOL
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