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FILE | NSRI swimmers on rescue vehicle.
The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) says it has resumed its search for a missing pilot at sea in Durban. The 61-year-old pilot, who is from Johannesburg, has been missing since Thursday when a light aircraft plunged into the ocean at the Suncoast Beach.
He was giving an aerial performance for school children and members of the public at the end of a three-day conference of the International Civil Aviation Organisation in Durban.
A large-scale search and rescue operation has been launched by multiple emergency services, including ALS Paramedics, South African Police Services (SAPS), Metro Police Search and Rescue, National Sea Rescue Institute and the eThekwini Fire Department.
The NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon says, “Since the early hours of Friday morning, from first light, metro police, eThekwini municipal lifeguards and the South African Police Service continued to recover wreckage washed ashore overnight. Ethekwini municipal lifeguards have deployed lifeguards and resources to search out to sea in an ongoing search and to recover wreckage beyond the backbreakers. The NSRI rescue craft Spirit of Surfski 6 will be deployed to assist in the ongoing search, and to provide a platform for police divers and metro police divers in ongoing scuba dive search efforts.”
VIDEO | Search for a missing Durban pilot begins at Suncoast Beach:
