Jumbo,
Prior to being ZS-SAR the freighter she served as 3B-NAS the combi for GARUDA. I spent a good many hour on that lovely bird. We used her like a freighter. Even came close to the all time Combi payload, missed it by 200kgs.
She always did find some way to make the evening hectic with the PDU's inop, the Maindeck Cargo door not wanting to close, or open on a few cases
or missing locks to hold the pallets in place. Somewhere I have the metal plate from her last flight before she returned to SAA when the 3B-reggo was
cancelled. May she rest in peace but she was a thing of beauty to see grazing the ramps of DPS/BIK et al. A piece of me went with that plane!
