International Relations working to bring home SA pilots' bodies
The Department of International Relations says a team is already working to bring home the bodies of two South African pilots who tragically died in a plane crash in Tanzania on Saturday.
Des Werner and Werner Froneman, who were with a non-profit group, were flying back to South Africa when their jet sent a distress signal after taking off from Tabora Airport.
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They had accompanied young engineers who had successfully built and assembled an aircraft that they flew from Cape Town to Cairo in Egypt last month.
The department's Clayson Monyela says they are working with the South African High Commission in Tanzania."The High Commissioner and his team are working with the company that the two pilots were linked to in order to facilitate the repatriation of their remains back to South Africa," said Monyela.
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Meanwhile, U Dream Global: Cape to Cairo Challenge says it was devastated to learn of the accident.It says Werner and Froneman had been the project directors.
The organisation released a statement on its Facebook page in which it said their thoughts and prayers were with the pilots' friends and families.
