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Operation to retrieve plane wreckage in Garden Route to continue


A search and rescue team consisting of 22 people, including a police pathology photographer, have gathered in Friemersheim near Great Brak River to continue their operation to reach the wreckage of a plane that crashed shortly after taking off from George airport on Thursday.

The Cessna Citation with three people on board crashed in a mountainous area near Ruiterbos outside Mossel Bay.

The two men and one woman, who works for the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), were on a calibration mission flight when they lost contact with its flight inspection aircraft.

The objective of today's operation is to establish proof of life.

The CAA will have a press conference in Pretoria on Friday morning.