SAA B744's Where are they now ?

[RobinB]

Can anyone, A: Verify and B: update the whereabouts of SAA's old fleet of B744's

ZS-SAK With Transaero
ZS-SAV With Cathay Cargo
ZS-SAW With Cathay Cargo
ZS-SAX With Transaero
ZS-SAY With ?
ZS-SAZ With ?
ZS-SBK With ?
ZS-SBS With ?

[ERASER]

Info as requested. ZS-SAK With Transaero ZS-SAV With Cathay Cargo ZS-SAW With Cathay Cargo ZS-SAX With TransaeroZS-SAY In JHB, all white, done some test flights, next to leave. Already in transit reg. ZS-SAZ In JHB, still SAA c/s on lease to TAAG. ZS-SBK In JHB, all white, on lease to TAAG ZS-SBS In JHB, all white, WFU. Just for additional info, the old SAA B743 ZS-SAC, SAJ & SAT(I Think)still in JHB.

[Setron]

Which one is the placon-special again?
And what is going to happen with it?

[ERASER]

It is once again time to say farewell to the third-last Boeing B747-400 – Vulindlela. ZS–SAY arrived in Johannesburg on 7 October 1993 on its delivery flight from the Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington; USA. The first revenue flight took place on 15 October 1993 from Johannesburg to Cape Town and the last revenue flight was from London to Johannesburg on the 13 October 2007.In its 14 years of service, South African Airways Technical has performed three D-Checks on the aircraft.The aircraft has now been sold by the lessor, ZS-SAY Leasing Limited, to the new operator Transaero of Russia.The final test-flight under the command of Captains Scully Levin and Tyrone Werner took place on 2 October 2008 with minor snags being identified. All technical information during the flight was recorded by Flight Operations QA representative Peter Brink.SAA Technical would also like to congratulate Captain Scully Levin on achieving a remarkable milestone in his flying career by completing 25 000 hours during the test flight on ZS-SAY. Technical staff on board the test-flight were extremely honoured to have shared this moment with Captain Levin.Captain Scully Levin. The hand over to the new owners took place this week at SAA Technical. In the interim ZS-SAZ and ZS-SBK are out on a wet-lease to TAAG and support the daily Luanda-Lisbon schedule, swapping around on a weekly basis for maintenance in the SAT hangars.These aircraft are also flying the Johannesburg-Lagos route for SAA on certain days.ZS-SBS is being considered by SAA for use on certain routes where the passenger load factors and fare structure allow for profits to be made, so hopefully it will be back in the skies soon.

[ERASER]

Accident: Transaero B744 and Iberworld A333 at Goa on Nov 16th 2008, A333 wing hit B744 tailBy Simon Hradecky, created Sunday, Nov 16th 2008 17:52Z, last updated Wednesday, Nov 19th 2008 14:13Z A Transaero Airlines Boeing 747-400, registration VP-BKL thought to perform flight UN542 from Goa (India) to Moscow Domodedovo (Russia) with 306 people on board, was waiting to receive engine start up clearance, when the wing of a taxiing Iberworld Airbus A330-300 on behalf of Thomas Cook, registration EC-KCP thought to perform flight MT67L from Goa to London Gatwick,EN (UK), hit the tail of the Transaero Boeing. Both aircraft were immediately evacuated, no injuries have been reported.The airport authority had reported, that the Transaero Boeing 747 was taxiing onto the departure runway, when its right wing hit the Airbus.Transaero reported, that their Boeing 747 was stationary at the gate awaiting clearance to start the engines, when its tail was struck by the taxiing Airbus.The Transaero Boeing VP-BKL had experienced an undetected bird strike under unknown circumstances. A couple of feathers were found in the engine during preflight inspection, the engine underwent a careful examination by aircraft engineers thereafter. After it had been established, that the engine had suffered no damage, the aircraft was cleared to fly to Moscow, but then was hit by the Iberworld A333.The Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation DGAC has opened an investigation into the accident.Both airplanes are currently grounded. Engineers will examine the airplanes on Monday.Thomas Cook dispatched a replacement aircraft.Transaero dispatched two replacement aircraft, a Boeing B767-300 registration EI-UNA with 200 passengers and another Boeing 747-200, registration VP-BQC, carrying the remaining passengers, both of which already departed Goa.EC-KCP was operated by Iberworld until May 2008, then by XL Airways UK and returned to Iberworld after the demise of XL Airways UK.