Search for missing planes on hold
2011-08-15 18:05POSTED BY ANASTACIA MASHABA
NEWS FROM :NEWS24
The search for two light aircraft that went missing in George's Valley near Tzaneen were put on hold as night began to fall on Monday, Limpopo police said.
"It's becoming dark, so search teams are returning and we will resume tomorrow," Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said.
A search and rescue team was hiking to an area where a Maake community leader said he saw two light aircraft go down.
"As soon as we got the information from the man we asked the defence force to use their helicopter to go to the village," he said.
"The helicopter couldn't get through because of the weather and so we dispatched a team of rescue personnel and police who are on the ground now."
The route was about two hours long and was not accessible by air.
Mulaudzi said the team would set up a base camp where they were and would continue hiking on Tuesday morning.
The Albatross planes, carrying six people each, were presumed to have crashed in the George's Valley area, between Polokwane and Tzaneen.
They took off from a landing strip in Tarentaal, a small farming community in Tzaneen, on Sunday and were headed to Rand Airport in Germiston. The planes were returning to Gauteng after an air show in Tzaneen.
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