/ 6 March 2000

BOTSWANA CRASH SURVIVORS ALIVE

THE remaining three passengers of a light Cessna 414 which crashed in Botswana on Wednesday have been found alive. Two survivors of the crash arrived at a game camp in the north-east of the country on Sunday, after a 200km hike through the desert. The aircraft was more than halfway to Maun when the pilot radioed Gaborone flight control and said there were oil pressure problems with one engine. The wreckage of the South African-registered Cessna was spotted near the north-eastern town of Kasane earlier on Sunday.