Re: SAA's London Flight out of Cape Town in trouble?
I was present at Jan Smuts Airport (soon Oliver Tambo International ? ? ? ? uuuuugh!) when the first SAA B747-244, ZS-SAN was delivered in the early 1970s. It carried with it the spare engine under the wing, just like the one in the picture of the TWA B747.
I wonder if the later B747 models (-300 and -400) had the same capacity....the hard point to carry a spare engine under the wing. I have never seen a picture of these models carry-ing the spare engine!