Werner Schulz, an employee of Farmsecure, was flying the company's twin-engine Piper Seneca to Lanseria airport in Gauteng to pick up passengers on Monday.
Shortly after he took off from the local airport the left engine failed and he had to make an emergency landing in some open veld.
He brought the plane down near the airport in the Gobles Folley residential area, crashed through a fence at the end of the field and came to a halt in Baartman Street, just short of the nearest houses in Jordania.
Schulz was unhurt but severely shaken.
Dries and Lurica Janse van Rensburg, who live near the accident site, were quickly at hand to assist Schulz. They gave him some fruit juice.
The aircraft was still in the street on Tuesday afternoon, waiting for authorities to finish investigating the incident.
Source: Sowetan via I-NET Bridge
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