Monday 30 November 2015

SAA bullies media into secrecy, Myeni says public ‘don’t have to know everything’

So early yesterday morning SAA got a gag order to stop some news outlets like…

THESOUTHAFRICAN.COM|BY GERHARD JACOBS

Fasten your seatbelts for a bumpy ride! Disgruntled passengers, cold burgers and in-flight propaganda: North Korea’s Air Koryo ‘the world’s worst airline (four years running…)’

By JAMIE FULLERTON I

Sunday 29 November 2015

Icelandic airline crew lands the first Boeing 757 passenger jet in history on the Antarctic ice sheet - See more at: http://www.airlineupdates.net/icelandic-airline-crew-lands-the-first-boeing-757-passenger-jet-in-history-on-the-antarctic-ice-sheet

FIRST PASSENGER JET TO LAND IN ANTARCTICA An all-Icelandic crew landed the first Icelandic plane and the first Boeing 757 commercial passenger jet in Antarctica. Photo/Ágúst Hákonarson

ALLEGED CAUSE OF HELDERBERG PLANE EXPOSED

Former SAA consultant Allan Dexter claimes the plane was carrying rocket fuel and ammunition.

JOHANNESBURG – The fate of the doomed Helderberg plane has once again made news headlines, with an Australian man in the final stages of cancer signing an affidavit on what he says was the cause of the crash.

The Sunday Times is reporting that former South African Airways (SAA) consultant Allan Dexter has claimed that the plane was carrying rocket fuel and ammunition.

Dexter worked as a public relations consultant for SAA from 1968 to 1987.

The Helderberg crashed into the sea off Mauritius in 1987, killing all 159 passengers and crew.

The Sunday Times says Dexter was phoned by an SAA official in Taiwan, who explained that the plane exploded due to the rocket fuel and ammunition which was being transported in violation of sanctions at the time.

He says this was later confirmed by another top official as being top secret.

Dexter says captain Dawie Uys did not want to fly the plane because this would put the passengers' lives at risk.

But Uys was told by then then SAA Chief Executive Officer Gert van der Veer that the cargo was none of his business and he would be fired if he failed to fly.

The Margo Commission investigated the disaster but was unable to determine the cause of a fire on board.

Saturday 28 November 2015

British Airways passengers who fled plane fire file lawsuit

Passengers who ran from a British Airways flight that caught fire in September before takeoff in Las Vegas are suing the plane's manufacturer and the maker of the engines.

Friday 27 November 2015

Fijian rugby team stepped in to serve food and drinks when flight attendants were busy treating a desperately ill passenger - See more at: http://www.airnewslive.net/fijian-rugby-team-stepped-in-to-serve-food-and-drinks-when-flight-attendants-were-busy-treating-a-desperately-ill-passenger/#sthash.ImqnvOEO.dpuf

The national Fijian rugby union team assisted a sick woman mid-flight
The coach and the team doctor tended to the woman
Virgin Australia flight attendants were also busy ensuring they were okay
Half the Fijian team then finished handing the food out to passengers
They then removed the food trays and filled rubbish bags on VA176
The woman, estimated to be 65, was falling in and out of consciousness
Passenger Ryan Fee told Daily Mail Australia she is much better today
The Virgin flight was travelling between Nadi, Fiji, to Brisbane on Thursday
Virgin Australia thanked the Fijian Sevens on Friday for their efforts

- See more at: http://www.airnewslive.net/fijian-rugby-team-stepped-in-to-serve-food-and-drinks-when-flight-attendants-were-busy-treating-a-desperately-ill-passenger/#sthash.R5cTvYpO.dpuf

The national Fijian rugby union team assisted flight attendants and a sick passenger during a four-hour long flight from Nadi to Brisbane on Thursday