A Civil Aviation Authority probe into a safety incident on the SAA flight that collected Covid-19 vaccines from Brussels in February has found flight and ground crew did not execute necessary procedures to prevent the incident.
reported in March that a potential miscalculation around the weight of the fuel loaded onboard the flight would be central to the CAA investigation.
At the time, a source with knowledge of the incident said indications were the incident occurred because the pilots and crew underestimated the weight of the aircraft by “90 tons”. Both the flight crew and ground crew did not execute any of the two procedures in place which are established to prevent this occurrence.In his reply, Mbalula said the investigation was completed on June 8 and the report was handed to SAA.
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