S.Africa's Comair fleet grounded indefinitely

[Helol]

South Africa's civil aviation regulator grounded Comair's planes indefinitely on Sunday, saying the airline had not adequately addressed safety issues, in a move that also affects passengers of low-cost airline Kulula and British Airways.

A spokesperson for the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) said it had extended a 24-hour precautionary suspension of Comair's operator certificate indefinitely.

The regulator said in the past month Comair had experienced safety problems ranging from "engine failures, engine malfunction and landing gear malfunctions," among others.

In its investigations, SACAA said it had discovered three so-called "level 1" findings "which pose an immediate risk" and must be addressed immediately.

Reuters (https://onemileatatime.com/news/comair-suspends-operations/)

[CK003]

Technical safety issues ? It would be interesting to see further developments, especially as the Comair fleet has its maintenance contracted to SA Technical

[PAXboy]

Wow. Glad we are already booked on Safair for next month. Even with them, Link and the others on max overtime, they won't be able to cover all of it. But I'm glad the CAA have shown some backbone and expect that the main board of Comair have comprehensively fouled their knickers - and in unison!

[SpringHeeledJack]

I'm amazed that they were affiliated with, and even looked like BA machines, how BA allowed their image to be connected with Comair if the accusations are true. One major mishap would've caused a lot of image damage. Surely BA would've had an inkling ?

[CK003]

Following the allocation of all maintenance to SAA , including the contracts formerly held by Lufthansa one can expect a future audit of SAA , SACAA and Lufthansa by both EASA and the FAA. In view of recent Incidents at both SAA with the Airbus 340 trim incident on the Covid vaccine mission to Europe and SACAA with their CFIT at George a proper audit is called for to once again instill confidence in the Southern African flying public.
Thus far we have only heard about incidents and different level findings, enough to rattle the flying public but the details need to be forthcoming to dispel any unfound rumours that may exist. We need to know how many incidents and their nature - two inflight shutdowns one month apart on the same sector begs for more details and clarification. Surely landing gear problems could also be properly explained by the responsible Maintenance Organisation both to the satisfaction of Comair, the customer and the Flying public and of course SACAA
Enough dust has been kicked -up to get everyone's attention and everyone needs to know.