The twin-engine light aircraft caught fire after missing power lines by a whisker and crashed into the front garden of Conway College near Charles Prince Airport.
Miraculously, the plane landed just yards from the college. When our newscrew arrived at the scene, fire crews were busy dousing the plane with foam.
Police said that the pilot of the plane had miraculously survived. The other passenger had been carted into the intensive care unit at the Avenues Clinic.
Snr Asst Comm Bvudzijena said: “It was a six-seater passenger aircraft owned by a Zimbabwean. The incident occurred near Charles Prince Airport.”
Footage of the crash site show rubble and smoke where the plane hit the ground.
Witnesses said the plane appeared to be struggling to maintain altitude and was “spluttering and swaying” before the crash, and nearly missed Zesa transmission lines.
A recording of the pilot’s conversation with controllers at nearby Charles Prince Airport showed that the plane was “struggling with height” after experiencing engine failure and that the pilot had decided to try to land on the road.
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