Search continues for pilot after crash
Sunday Tribune
|August 17, 2025
ANDREW Blackwood-Murray has been described as the most conscientious and careful pilot.
His death on Thursday when the Extra 300 aircraft, a two-seat aerobatics monoplane, he was piloting crashed into the sea, has left family and friends baffled as to what caused the crash.
Blackwood-Murray, 61, an airline and former air force pilot from Johannesburg, was at the time performing a final display during an airshow near Durban’s Battery Beach.
Blackwood-Murray’s wife, Kyla, said she was devastated and beyond heartbroken. “It was the call I have been dreading my whole life. But I always said I would rather he go doing the things he loves the most. I just didn’t realise he would have left so soon.
“He was my world. We did everything together and we had so many plans. We were going to grow old and be the most awesome geriatrics together. I am beyond heartbroken. Just to have one more day with him. If only,” wrote Kyla in a tribute on social media.
Anton van Niekerk said his cousin was doing what he loved most during his tragic passing, flying aerobatics.
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