Air Force: No comment on crash
2003-11-12 16:09
Johannesburg - Two air force pilots were killed on Wednesday when their jet plane crashed close to a highway.
Colonel Frans Schoombee of the South African Air Force said that the men were on a low altitude navigation flight when the plane crashed.
However, he could not say at what altitude the plane was flying when it crashed.
The men were taking part in an exercise which formed part of a combat flying training course.
Schoombee said the South African Air Force would not comment on any details of the crash until it had completed an inquiry into its cause.
The Impala Mk1 fighter jet crashed near Nelspruit.
Captain Mtsholi Bhembe for police said one of the men killed was propelled from the plane into trees and rocks near the highway and the other collided into the windshield of a truck, before falling through the vehicle's roof.
A passenger in the truck was slightly injured on impact and the driver was treated for shock, he said.
Bhembe said the truck passenger was taken to a hospital for treatment.
- AP