The Civil Aviation Authority has released three reports detailing unusual incidents in SA's skies.
Visitors to a game lodge in Limpopo had a harrowing experience when their pilot got lost and crashed when he landed on the wrong airstrip — and then the helicopter sent to rescue them got lost, too.
At 8am the aircraft approached the strip but the landing was bumpy because of an uneven surface. An unseen ditch caused the right-hand side of the main landing gear to collapse, which in turn saw the right-hand side engine propeller and the wing make contact with the ground. According to the report, the incident occurred because the light aircraft crew did not properly plan their flight to the destination airfield.Image:On December 16, 2019, during the climb phase after take-off at 5.36am from Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport to King Shaka International in Durban, the pilots of a Boeing 737-800 noticed an altitude warning in the cabin.The warning alerted the crew that the aircraft’s cabin was not pressurising to the required cabin altitude.
malfunctions in the air conditioning and pressurisation systems had been recorded fourteen days before the emergency, but were never resolved.
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