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SAA Pilots Threaten To Go On Strike
05 Dec 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Threatening to clip the airline’s wings, the pilots are demanding a 15.7% salary hike with added benefits. The company is only offering 8.46%, saying it cannot afford the proposed offer.
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New Zealand Airport Introduces Time-Limit On Hugs
21 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Describing airports as “hotbeds of emotion”, Dunedin Airport still allows a 15-minute parking lot visit for free – plenty of time for a very fond farewell…
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Light Aeroplane Crash-Lands At Durban Golf Course
18 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
A pilot was hurt when a small aeroplane crashed at Durban’s Beachwood Golf Club in Durban North on Thursday afternoon.
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Flying Conservationists Teach Endangered Birds To Migrate With Microlights
17 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Normally, parents would accompany the birds on their first migration to show them the path. However, the birds’ knowledge of their flight path has mostly been forgotten because the species has been hunted almost to extinction.
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Harrowing Footage As NOAA Plane Flies Directly Through Hurricane Milton
09 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
NOAA released harrowing footage yesterday that shows the view from the passenger side window of “Miss Piggy,” the Lockheed WP-3D Orion aircraft used by NOAA to track hurricanes.
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Regulators Shut Down East London’s King Phalo Airport For Second Time This Month
09 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
ACSA said flights would remain postponed until further notice.
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“The System Is Better Than Pilots” Automatic Takeoff Is Coming To Passenger Jets In 2025
01 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Travellers and pilots are keeping a dubious eye on Embraer after the aeroplane manufacturer unveiled its “E2 Enhanced Take Off System”.
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Thursday Morning Spice
26 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The 15 most attractive hobbies to women, Firefighters battle Midrand blaze, Killing of Japanese boy sparks soul searching in China, The World’s ‘Most expensive bag’ debuted in Paris, and Eric Adams becomes first sitting NYC mayor indicted.
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Plett Airport Is Back: Air du Cap Set To Fly For Season
11 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
With CemAir unable to land, Cape Winelands-based ‘Air du Cap’ expects to be operating and available for both business and leisure travellers flying to Plettenberg Bay from Cape Town and surrounds.
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Watch As Yet Another Boeing Aborts Takeoff After Several Tyres Blow
11 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
These days they may as well say “Boeing, Boeing, gone.”
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Passenger Captures Horrifying Moment British Airways Plane Is Hit By Lightning
08 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Although scary, aircraft are struck by lightning once or twice a year.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
18 Jun 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Japan reports record spike in potentially deadly bacterial infection, MK party ends boycott, Olympics in July will be ‘nearly impossible’ over extreme heat, and Russia overtakes US as gas supplier to Europe.
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Best Of The Best 2024 Winner Tswalu Kalahari Reserve Takes Sustainable Luxury To New Heights
14 Jun 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Tswalu’s efforts to create a spectacular experience have recently been rewarded with inclusion on Robb Report’s Best Of The Best list.
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The Last BelugaXL Wide-Body Airliner Has Entered Service [Video]
13 Jun 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Few aeroplanes can beat the sight of the Airbus Beluga fleet.
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Nail-Biting Footage Of Plane Narrowly Missing Buildings To Make Emergency Landing In Sydney [Video]
28 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The Cessna skimmed over two hangars before hitting the runway and grinding to a halt.
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Scientists Explain Why Airplane Turbulence Is Getting More Extreme
27 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
While turbulence fatalities are rare, the overall bumpiness in the air is becoming more frequent, and severe.
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Severe Turbulence Kills Passenger On Boeing 777 Commercial Flight [Video]
21 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
73-year-old British man travelling in premium economy with his wife is understood to have been killed.
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Another Boeing Incident As FedEx Plane Makes Dramatic Emergency Landing [Video]
09 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Boeing’s safety record is going down in flames.
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Second Boeing Whistleblower Dead In Two Months [Video]
03 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Dean was among the first whistleblowers to accuse Spirit AeroSystems leadership of ignoring defects on the 737 MAX.
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With No Rudders Or Flaps, This Bonkers New X-Plane Uses Holes In Its Wings To Hit Mach Speeds
30 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
It sounds like sci-fi, but it’s just the latest mad offering from the US government’s long-running experimental X-Plane series.
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Skilled Pilots Safely Lands FlySafair Plane With Wheel Damage [Video]
22 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
After take-off, ground staff at OR Tambo reported witnessing what appeared to be damage to one of the aircraft’s back wheels.
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The 2024 SAAF Museum Air Show Will Be ‘A Flight Through Time’
12 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
This event will kick start with one of the Museum’s very own aircraft racing the fastest train in South Africa, the Gautrain.
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Boeing Designed A Weird Plane That Could ‘Suck Up’ Shipping Containers [Video]
03 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Although there are some truly massive cargo planes crisscrossing the sky above us today, there’s always the need to go bigger.
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Cape Town’s New ‘Eye in the Sky’ Plane Will Leave Criminal With No Place To Hide
01 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Expect to see this watchful eye join the Mavericks plane over the Mother City soon.
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Private Jet Bursts Into Flames After Crashing On Florida Highway [Video]
13 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Shocking video footage surfaced on Friday that shows a private jet explode into flames after colliding with a car on a Florida highway.
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FlySafair Flight Diverted Quickly To Save The Life Of A Passed Out Passenger
13 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
On Monday, a FlySafair flight had to make an emergency landing in Bloemfontein to save a passenger’s life.
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Keep An Eye Out For The Two Gripen Jets Joining The SONA Fly-By This Afternoon
08 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Adding some gravitas to this afternoon’s SONA spectacular will be two Gripen fighters from 2 Squadron, the premier fighter squadron of the SAAF
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Popular YouTuber Tears Into South African Airlink With Scathing Flight Review [Video]
06 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
We wonder if anyone else has had as bad an experience flying with Airlink as this YouTuber?
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Conditions At The SA Air Force HQ Described As ‘Inhumane, Unsafe and Illegal’
30 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Defence Force union, Sandu, has described the conditions on the three underground floors of the five-level building as “inhumane, unsafe and illegal,” after a social media post showed sweltering temperatures of almost 40 degrees cooking employees and servers alike.
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Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane May Have Been Found
30 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were last seen taking off from Papua New Guinea on July 2, 1937.
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