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| Vintage South African plane crashes near Pretoria | |
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| One person has been killed and 20 others injured in a plane crash near South Africa's capital, Pretoria. | |
| Local emergency services posted a picture on Twitter showing passengers being helped from the burning wreckage of a plane in a grassy field. | Local emergency services posted a picture on Twitter showing passengers being helped from the burning wreckage of a plane in a grassy field. |
| The authorities said they were investigating the cause of the crash. | |
| The Convair plane, built in 1954, was due to be sent to an air museum in The Netherlands. It crashed during "take-off on a test flight", the museum said. | |
| It was "hugely shocked" by Tuesday's crash, the Aviodrome aerospace theme park said in a statement. | |
| The plane crashed near a small airport, Wonderboom, in Pretoria. | |
| A private medical emergency company, ER24, said one passenger died on the scene. | |
| "The remaining patients with their injuries ranging from minor to critical have been treated, provided with advanced-life support intervention and transported by road ambulances, as well as medical helicopters, to nearby hospitals," ER24 spokesman Russel Meiring said. | |
| The aircraft was marked "Martin's Air Charter", which was the previous name of the Dutch cargo airline Martinair. The name was changed in 1966. | The aircraft was marked "Martin's Air Charter", which was the previous name of the Dutch cargo airline Martinair. The name was changed in 1966. |