Flight CE 723 was discontinued following an incident yesterday soon after take off from Cape Town International Airport.
What a joke - the flight was discontinued - a nice way of saying that their was no way that the crew could continue to Johannesburg, even though I wanted them to!!!
Bricknell says this is the first major incident that the airline has experienced since taking to the skies 12 years ago.
I seem to remember a BAC 111 losing an engine from JNB to GRJ, and the crew electing to continue to GRJ on one engine!!! No press to give Vernie a hard time then and he got away with it!! A picture of a missing toilet servicing cap does not make for good reading - not enough blood and guts, oops, sorry, just blood!!
He (Vernon) says the airline industry is the most regulated sector in the world in terms of safety, training and aircraft maintenance.
Yea, maybe in the rest of the world, but definitely not in SA and the rest of Africa!!