And SA406, 13th March 1967, Viscount 'Rietbok'.
And SA228, 20th April 1968, B707 'Pretoria'.
We used to have not some of the best but THE best pilots in the world.
That's quite a wild statement?! There's a
lot of top-rate competition out there for that elevated position. (Or was that just 'the world south of the Limpopo'?)
Back to the topic, there just aren't the number of customers who can afford air travel in SA to make any more than the present two-horse-race viable. And what a tilted race, with one being inefficient and propped up by the taxpayer while the other is more efficient and businesslike. Do the colours that they fly under say anything?