Rawandan 737 aborts at FAJS

[cammron]

Just witnessed Rawandan flight 112 abort 3/4 down 3L with the pilot shouting "we are aborting" twice in a high pitched voice over my transceiver earlier this evening.Apparant engine failure.
Is this just another normal day for African Aviation or does this happen as regularly in the Western World??

[mactheknife]

Read on another forum that Rwandair Express operating to FAJS with a Nationwide 732 (ZS-OOD).

Any chance this was a Nationwide fluffy??

[RunwayBlueOne]

Wet leased Nationwide Fluffy.

[mainbearing]

Interair I would think, saw them taking off sunday as Rwan 112, Nationwide, my mate tells me stopped on Fri 29/02

[grjplanes]

Saw Nationwide ZS-OOD at GRJ yesterday, so couldn't have been them anymore.

[cammron]

Merely an observation,probably due to the focus on a lot of incidents lateley.Maybe a question regarding the usage of older generation aircraft and possibly a higher incident rate due to it? Does africa have a larger "collection" of old aircraft in use?

[rodmur]

Not Nationwide

It Was Inter Air

[KLM66]

looking for more information on this inter air flight Rwandair 737, #112

I was on this flight. Can anyone provide more information on the aircraft. Passengers with me reported that they had been trying to get to Kigali for a week and that the flight was regularly canceled. One man was on a flight from Joburg to Kigali that crash-landed in the DRC. Another woman reported one of the craft turning around over Zim. They reported that Rwandair gave up Nationwide contract 5 months ago. Any more info?

[spacedaddy]

Have a buddy there. Says it was an FCU problem. Guess they don't have them on new generation aircraft. High speed aborts are always hairy. Well done to the crew.

[Alfred Kamara]

It was reported by a passenger that it was an Air Malawi aircraft.

[VarigMD11]

I know Air Malawi leases their 737-500 to Rwandair, but last time I was in FWCL (Blantyre Chileka) in January it was in for a major overhaul (C-Check I think), dunno if its still there though.

[JTrain]

I too thought Air Malawi did the wetlease to RwandAir Express.

Last year somebody else was doing it with MD-80s.
It has been a 737 most recently.

jt

[ERASER]

RwandAir Express is flying the B737-500 (7Q-YKW). It is currectly standing at SAA Technical next to the Air Malawi B737-300 (7Q-YKP). Both standing longer than a week and missing an engine........?

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