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Hunt still on for missing plane
30/12/2007 16:31 - (SA)
Johannesburg - Rescue services were still searching for the missing Cessna 210 light aircraft on Sunday, five days after it disappeared in the Baviaanskloof area of the Eastern Cape, said authorities.
"We haven't had success, but are still searching," said SA Search and Rescue Organisation head Charles Norval on Sunday.
Norval said that helicopters and fixed wing aircraft were still searching the mountainous Baviaans Kloof area on Sunday afternoon.
The last contact with the Cessna was when it left Wonderboom Airport at 09:00 on Wednesday.
The pilot had been named Dirk Booysen Pretoria West, according to a report by the SABC he was the only passenger in the single-engined Cessna Centurion.
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