Plane crash in Pretoria: one dead and dozens wounded in South Africa



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In South Africa, a human being was killed and 20 others injured in the crash of a plane ready for the museum. Rescuers reported that the plane – a 1954 Convair-340 – crashed on Tuesday after taking off from Pretoria for a test flight. The plane crashed about five kilometers east of the airport of the South African capital and damaged a factory building.

The Convair-340, a small American pbadenger plane, was reportedly taken to the Aviodrome Museum in Lelystad, the Netherlands. be. The museum management expressed "extremely shocked" about the accident.

On pictures taken at the scene of the accident, it was seen that the machine had broken up into several parts. The paramedics helped recover the survivors from the wreckage and treated them at the scene of the accident. Firefighters were on duty to extinguish the steaming wreckage.

According to a spokesman for the authorities, 19 detainees were on board. In the badpit, the pilot or flight technician died in the accident, he said. Still on the ground, two people were injured by the fall of the machine. In total, there were 20 wounded, some of the victims were seriously injured.

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