If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
South Africa's Nationwide leases plane for London flight
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/02122007/325...on-flight.html
South Africa's Nationwide leases plane for London flight JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) said on Sunday grounded carrier Nationwide Airlines had leased an aircraft from Dutch airline KLM AIRF.PA to fly passengers to London on Sunday evening. SACAA on Friday grounded Nationwide's flights, raising fresh concerns after an engine fell off one of the airline's planes earlier this month. SACAA said the company could not guarantee continued safety and that it had suspended approval for the unlisted airlines' maintenance organisation, which had failed to comply with regulations to meet the authority's safety standards. The airline authority also suspended the certificates of airworthiness of all aircraft maintained by Nationwide. SACAA spokeswoman Phindiwe Gewbu said Nationwide had to prove that the KLM aircraft complied with civil aviation safety requirements before it would be allowed to fly. "As we speak the inspection is still taking place ... We want to make sure that everything is up to scratch," she told Reuters. Gwebu said the SACAA inspection should be completed by 12 a.m. British time. "If they are not happy, the flight will not go ahead." On November 2, South Africa's Civil Aviation Authority grounded all Boeing BA.N 737 200 aircraft in the country for safety checks after an engine fell off the wing of a Nationwide Airline aircraft carrying 106 passengers in Cape Town. There were no injuries sustained by anyone on board or on the ground. Nationwide, whose spokesman Rodger Whittle was not available for comment, has flights to London's Gatwick airport and says on its website that it has more than 350 domestic, regional and international weekly flights, including to Zambia. (Reporting by Ron Derby, editing by Will Waterman) |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Easy Accommodation guide for South Africa's Garden Route | Lawrence Strydom | Africa | 0 | January 13th, 2004 06:19 AM |
Info on Malaria in South Africa's Kruger National Park. | Safari Rangers | Asia | 2 | October 10th, 2003 12:01 PM |
Info on Malaria in South Africa's Kruger National Park. | Safari Rangers | Europe | 1 | October 9th, 2003 06:42 PM |
Info on Malaria in South Africa's Kruger National Park. | Safari Rangers | Travel - anything else not covered | 0 | October 9th, 2003 01:49 PM |
Info on Malaria in South Africa's Kruger National Park. | Safari Rangers | Travel Marketplace | 0 | October 9th, 2003 01:48 PM |