A helicopter pilot is lucky to be alive after the aircraft he was flying crashed near Hibberdene on the South Coast.
Emergency services say the man suffered minor injuries and was able to climb out of the wreckage himself - before it burnt out.
KwaZulu Private Ambulance paramedics say they received the call a little over an hour ago.
Spokesperson Belinda Catchpole says the pilot was alone when it crashed on a sugar cane farm outside the seaside town - not far from the local clinic.
"The scene was quite far down on one of the farms, so we couldn't drive there in the ambulance, we had to walk down through the sugarcane - and the helicopter was in flames at the time," she said.
The pilot has been taken to hospital.
- East Coast Radio News
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