Garden plane crash kills two

A light aircraft crashed in the backyard of a residential property in Albertyn Street in Vorna Valley, Midrand, yesterday.

The pilot of the aircraft and a gardener are confirmed to have died.

“All necessary authorities are on the scene and have secured the area for a South African Civil Aircraft Aviation investigation,” said Shawn Herbst of Netcare 911.

Eyewitness Stephanus Volschenk described the crash, and how he attempted to help.

“I’m still shaking‚“Volschenk said.

“I was driving down the road when I looked up and saw the plane about three metres from me. I heard the engine and next thing the plane crashed.”

He said he parked his car and ran onto the property to attempt to help.

“The owner was shouting out to me saying‚ ‘Is my gardener okay? Is my gardener okay?’”

According to Volschenk, the female pilot‚ who had been flying alone, did not have a pulse.

The gardener, according to Volschenk, was still alive.

“He was murmuring something.

“But I could not hear him and he was bleeding from his head.”

The gardener died shortly thereafter.

Albertyn Street between Le Roux Avenue and Harry Galaun Drive were closed most of yesterday, while authorities investigated the scene.

Robert Mulaudzi shared the pic on Facebook City of Joburg EMS spokesperson A gardener and pilot were killed yesterday when a plane crashed into a property in Midrand. Police spokesperson Kay Makhubele said the plane crashed in the yard where the gardener was working. He and the pilot died at the scene.

Picture: Neil McCartney TRAGIC SCENE. A forensic pathologist outside the scene of a light plane crash at a residential house in Vorna Valley yesterday. Two people – the pilot and a gardener – died in the crash.