Matsieng Air Show Was Lights Up The Skies

PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

“Did you actually see that?” a boy shouted to his mate, clearly in awe of what he was seeing with own two eyes. What he just witnessed was something only seen in movies, Fast and Furious 7 to be specific.

But this was real life scene, at Wesbank Matsieng Airshow held at Matsieng Airstrip on Saturday in Rasesa. Just to jazz it up a bit, the plane dropped a real car from the sky.

Unlike in the movie where they parachute their cars out of the back of a cargo plane, at Matsieng Airshow, a helicopter glided around with a car attached to its landing skits like it was a fish eagle.

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