NATIONAL NEWS - The Wonderboom air crash victim has been identified as Pretorian Chris Barnard.
It is believed Barnard was in the cockpit when the Convair 340 aircraft crashed into a dairy factory, east of the Moloto Road, north of Pretoria on Tuesday afternoon.
A family member said Barnard’s death was a great shock but declined to say more as “investigations were continuing”.
According to Dutch news agency, NOS, the aircraft was on a test flight to Aviodrome in the Netherlands.
It had 19 occupants, one died and two factory-workers were injured.
Three of which were Dutchmen, two Australian pilots and a number of South Africans including technicians and an employee of Rovos Rail.
Four passengers were trapped in the wreckage.
Pretorian Chris Barnard died in the crash.
