Hein Kaiser The incident allegedly involved a near-stall incident after takeoff from OR Tambo International Airport on 24 February. It was only averted when automated systems kicked in. The SAA flight that fetched vaccines from Brussels. Picture: Fikile Mbalula/Twitter A preliminary assessment indicates SAA was negligent in not reporting within the legal time limit a safety-related incident involving an Airbus A340-600 chartered to fly to Belgium to collect vaccines in February, the South African Civil Aviation Authority (Sacaa) says. The incident allegedly involved a near-stall incident after takeoff from OR Tambo International Airport on 24 February. It was only averted when automated systems kicked in. The incident was “reportable” to the authority and had to be done within 72 hours of its occurrence, acco
Aircraft leasing companies are owed about R30bn by SAA – a debt that was racked up before the airline was placed under voluntary business rescue in December 2019. But aircraft lessors require payment of about R1.7bn by August 2021.
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The Department of Public Enterprises says a group of pilots is attempting to discredit an SAA flight transporting vaccines.
The flight is expected to return from Belgium on Saturday with 80 000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.
However, the group of pilots says the expenses incurred in sending the plane could have been avoided.
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has lashed out at a group of South African Airways (SAA) pilots who raised concern over the cost of a flight to transport Covid-19 vaccines.
In a statement, the department said the pilots were attempting to discredit a flight to transport vaccines back into the country to protect health workers from the Covid-19 pandemic .
The transportation of vaccines in an empty South African Airways (SAA) aircraft has come under fire. The South African Airways Pilots' Association (Saapa) has lambasted the government for chartering an empty cargo plane to fetch a batch of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from Brussels.
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Making headlines: SAA plane departs to fetch more Covid-19 vaccines; Education department makes headway on national rollout of coding & robotics; And, extra ID needed after people pretend to be health workers to get the jab