Former SA soldier died in plane crash
Mar 12, 2009 Memoriam
The South African who died in the Uganda plane crash on Monday was a former soldier from Pretoria. Duncan Rykaart, 51, a former South African Defence Force Special Forces operative who later served in Iraq as a security operative, is believed to have been working as a security adviser to the African Union peacekeepers.
He was one of 11 people who died when an Illyushin-76 cargo plane crashed into Lake Victoria near Entebbe airport in Uganda on Monday. - Staff Reporter
