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An Eastern Cape pilot was killed on Saturday when his two-seater aircraft crashed into an orchard while he was crop-spraying at Kirkwood.
Uiteinhage police spokesperson, Sergeant Majola Nkholi, identified the deceased as 50-year-old Andries Duffy.
Nkholi says the aircraft hit the ground and burst into flames shortly before 6.30 am.
He says Duffy was busy spraying orchards in Bushby Way in Sunny Bank, Kirkwood, when the accident happened.
An inquest docket has been opened and investigators from the South African Civil Aviation Authority are already on the scene.
They said the aircraft was a Piper Pawnee used for crop spraying.
On Friday, a father and son had a lucky escape when their light aircraft crashed-landed near the airstrip at Paradise Beach outside Jeffrey’s Bay.
The two-seater aircraft was extensively damaged but the two escaped the crash virtually unscathed.
