A man was killed when he was hit by a gyrocopter which was making an emergency landing at the Vaal Marina in Vereeniging on Sunday.
Netcare 911 paramedics responded just after noon to reports of an aircraft crash on the shore of the Vaal Marina next to the R54 in Gauteng.
"Reports from the scene indicate that a gyrocopter collided with an elderly male believed to be in his 70s while trying to perform an emergency landing," said Netcare 911 spokesman Shawn Herbst said.
"The patient was assessed by a Netcare 911 emergency care practitioner and found to have no signs of life and declared deceased on the scene."
The circumstances leading up to the incident were unknown, but police were on the scene and had secured the area for South African Civil Aviation Authority investigators, Herbst said.
