Company Watch - South African Airways.Oct 9, 2006 South African Flight Aborted After 'Verbal Threat'. A South African airliner aborted a flight from Cape Town Cape Town or Capetown, city (1991 pop. 854,616), legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape, a port on the Atlantic Ocean. It was the capital of Cape Province before that province's subdivision in 1994. to Johannesburg on Friday after a "verbal threat" from two passengers, an airline official said. A spokeswoman for Kulula.com, a local low-cost airline operated by Comair, a franchised partner of British Airways, said the captain followed standard procedure and returned the aircraft to Cape Town airport. Zvenyika said the "unknown verbal threat" was made less than 30 minutes into the flight of MN120 taking off from Cape Town for the two-hour flight to Johannesburg. Police and emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' surrounded the plane, carrying 151 passengers and six crew, immediately after it landed and was parked at an isolated section of the airport. All passengers were later escorted off the plane into waiting buses and taken back to the airport terminal. Police spokesman Billy Jones said two South Africans were taken in for questioning to determine whether criminal charges would be filed. Oct 6, 2006 South African officials said Cape Town airport was functioning normally. The scare was the second involving a flight from Cape Town in recent months. In June a South African Airways South African Airways (SAA) is South Africa's largest domestic and international airline company, with hubs in Cape Town and Johannesburg. It is also known in Afrikaans as Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens (SAL) flight bound for Johannesburg turned back soon after take off following a hijack attempt. A Zimbabwean student wielding a hypodermic syringe hypodermic syringe n. A syringe with a calibrated barrel, plunger, and tip, used with a hypodermic needle for hypodermic injections and for aspiration. threatened crew members and ordered the SAA (Systems Application Architecture) A set of interfaces designed to cross all IBM platforms from PC to mainframe. Introduced by IBM in 1987, SAA includes the Common User Access (CUA), the Common Programming Interface for Communications (CPI-C) and Common Communications flight diverted to Maputo, capital of neighboring Mozambique. He was overpowered o·ver·pow·er tr.v. o·ver·pow·ered, o·ver·pow·er·ing, o·ver·pow·ers 1. To overcome or vanquish by superior force; subdue. 2. To affect so strongly as to make helpless or ineffective; overwhelm. 3. by crew and passengers before the plane returned to Cape Town. The student was arrested and his trial continues. Oct 6, 2006 South African Airways will launch daily nonstop service from Washington Dulles to Johannesburg effective Oct. 30 using A340-600s. Aircraft will require a technical stop to refuel re·fu·el v. re·fu·eled also re·fu·elled, re·fu·el·ing also re·fu·el·ling, re·fu·els also re·fu·els v.tr. To supply again with fuel. v.intr. during July and August. Oct 3, 2006 Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Oct 2, 2006 |
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