The plane caught on the steel cable and hung over the ground (video)
Passengers saved by a courageous guide.
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Light sport aircraft caught on the steel cable zipline in South Africa and hung vertically on the propeller.
On Board were two men — pilot Peter and his wife Mary, both about 60 years. They patrolled the area, looking for poachers who are hunting rhinos.
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The aircraft hovered at an altitude of about one hundred meters. The police began a rescue operation. It was planned that in the cabin, people will save from above by a police helicopter, but then participants in the operation were abandoned this idea.
In the end, the 51-year-old rescuer and mountain guide Rob Thomas approached the plane on the rope zipline, forced the victims to open the door and tie their belay rope. A man and a woman managed to save before the plane crashed. They escaped injury, but still experiencing the shock.
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