MBB Bo 105LS A-3 crash near Katse Dam, Lesotho

The aircraft, known as the Super Lifter, struck the water surface while flying low on a film sortie at Katse Dam at about 10:30 and sank to around 150 metres. The pilot, Lt Lerelileng Maloi, and an official of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, Sethunya Nthako, were killed. The three surviving passengers, a cameraman, a sound engineer and a German journalist, were picked up by a motor boat about fifteen minutes later. A diver searching for the wreck died on 23 May; that death is not counted in the occupant figure. The wreck was recovered on 2 June and the bodies the day before. Injuries among the survivors were not reported.