Midlands plane crash post-mortems completed
Post-mortem examinations of the victims of the Midlands
plane crash have been completed in Richards Bay.
It has been less than a week since the crash that claimed the lives of three students.
They were part of a formation of three aircraft that left Virginia Airport in Durban North on Sunday, heading to Wonderboom Airport in Pretoria.
The group planned to refuel in Ladysmith, but they were diverted to Greytown due to the lack of night landing facilities.
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Two of the planes crashed, and while the passengers in one of the planes emerged unscathed, three were killed in the second plane.
The third plane managed to land safely.
The department says the bodies of student pilots Nqobile Biyela and Lulama Msane, along with medical student Siphesihle Buthelezi, will be returned to the Greytown mortuary.
There, the families will receive the post-mortem reports and transport the remains to their respective hometowns for burial.
Biyela was from Umlazi, Msane from Dundee, and Buthelezi from Ezakheni uMnambithi.
The families have indicated they hope to bury their loved ones this weekend.
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