Search for remains halted
2003-07-24 19:56
Pretoria - Authorities have stopped searching for any further remains of the 14 people, including two South African pilots, killed in an air crash on Mount Kenya, the agents for assistance services group, Europ Assistance, said on Thursday.
"The recoverable remains of the victims of the ill-fated flight were airlifted to Nairobi yesterday," they said in a statement.
Gys Steyn, CEO of Europ Assistance, said the remains of the South Africans would be sent to South Africa and those of the American family to the United States.
It was understood that the recovery teams might return to the crash site later.
The chartered aircraft crashed into Mount Kenya, killing everybody on board.
The accident happened when a cloudy sky was beginning to clear just before sunset.
Rangers from the Mount Kenya National Park heard the crash. They found no survivors when they visited the site, but managed to retrieve the passports of some of the passengers.
The South African pilots were identified as Norman Pedlar and Damien Frost.
The American passengers were Dr George W Brumley, 68; his wife, Jean, 67; three of their children, George III, daughters Lois and Beth; George's wife Julia and two children, George IV and Jordan; Lois' husband Richard Morrell and their son, Alex, 11, and Beth's husband William Love and their daughter, Sarah, 12.
- SAPA