Thanks, that looks like it might be it but I don't remember the river being that close.
Have just been digging out old passports and the relevant one shows that it was May 72 not 75 so another 2 years of water have gone under the bridge making the memory even more out of date.
From the lack of responses it looks like there are not many EA Airways captains around anymore. The guy who few us in was, I believe a Canadian.
Re ou toppie. Yes, after 45 years of the Far East, South America and my favorite continent of Africa I tried retiring below the Limpopo in 2000 but, after 10 years moved here, a little closer to my birth place.