WATCH: Search for missing pilot Andrew Blackwood-Murray enters day four
The wreckage of the plane has been located and retrieved, but the pilot remains unaccounted for.
Multi-agency teams, including ALS Paramedics, Police Search and Rescue divers, NSRI units, the South African Navy, the SACAA, ARCC, and the Accident and Incident Investigation Divisio,n are continuing systematic search operations.
Authorities underscore the ongoing challenge of locating Blackwood-Murray, even as favourable weather and sea conditions have allowed the search to persist uninterrupted.
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