South Africa military plane crashes, killing 11  A South African
military aircraft on an unknown mission to an area near former
President Nelson Mandela's village crashed in a mountain range,
killing all 11 people onboard, officials said Thursday.  The
Douglas C-47TP Dakota, a twin-propeller aircraft, had taken off
from Pretoria's Waterkloof Air Force Base on Wednesday morning,
said Brig. Gen. Xolani Mabanga, a military spokesman. The
aircraft encountered bad weather in flight and failed to make
its 10 a.m. landing.  On Thursday morning, soldiers found the
wreckage in the Drakensberg mountains near Ladysmith in KwaZulu-
Natal province, some 340 kilometers (210 miles) southeast of the
air base, Mabanga said. The Drakensberg, which in the local
Afrikaans language means Dragon Mountains, have the highest
peaks in South Africa, reaching to a height of about 3,400
meters (11,400 feet).  In a statement Thursday, South Africa's
Defense Department said an investigation would begin into the
cause of the crash, which ki