Bad weather is believed to have played a part in a fatal light aircraft crash at Lanseria airport.

Police say a pilot who crashed shortly after taking off in a light aircraft at the Wonderboom Airport in Pretoria has died.

The Civil Aviation Authority has sent investigators to look into the cause of an aircraft accident near Plettenberg Bay on Tuesday.

The body of a Johannesburg pilot, who went missing over the weekend, was found in the wreckage of his light aircraft near Northam on Wednesday.