Andz From South Africa, joined Feb 2004, 8298 posts, RR: 11 Reply 2, posted (4 years 11 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 4036 times:
This has caused chaos at JNB, a colleague of mine has been waiting to fly to Durban since early this morning and is still sitting there. He would have been quicker driving
BA 6203 scheduled arrival at DUR was 10:10am, it is now 1pm. One passenger was taken to hospital suffering from shock.
After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says WTF...
A390 From South Africa, joined Sep 2005, 204 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (4 years 11 months 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 3955 times:
Airline statement
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Flight BA 6203 incident at Durban International Airport
Johannesburg - Wednesday 18 June 2008. A British Airways flight BA6203 (operated by Comair) flying from Johannesburg to Durban encountered extremely bad weather upon landing in Durban earlier today. The aircraft hit a wet patch on the runway and skidded resulting in one of the wheels ending up off the runway as the plane was brought to a stop.
There were 87 passengers and 6 crew on board the Boeing 737-300 and no-one was injured. Passengers and crew have disembarked and are being debriefed by the flight crew and have been offered Lifeline counselling. Most passengers have now left the airport and continued on their journey, even though road traffic has been gridlocked outside the airport due to the bad weather.
Initial assessments indicate that there is very minor damage to the aircraft. The incident is currently being investigated and the South African Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has been notified.
Durban airport had been closed earlier this morning due to the poor weather but had been reopened to allow aircraft to land. The airport has since been closed again while the aircraft is being removed from the runway.
Further updates will follow later today.
Andz From South Africa, joined Feb 2004, 8298 posts, RR: 11 Reply 8, posted (4 years 11 months 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 3606 times:
Quoting Leezyjet (Reply 7): Does this mean that the highly competant SACAA will now withdraw Comair's AOC too while they "investigate" like they did with Nationwide ?.
Hmmm... well I'm not going to state the obvious but the incidents are a *little* different.
Another of my colleagues was booked on Kulula JNB-DUR this evening, flight has been cancelled. I don't even want to imagine what JNB domestic must look like.
After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says WTF...
Lxlgu From South Africa, joined Sep 2000, 1085 posts, RR: 2 Reply 10, posted (4 years 11 months 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 3519 times:
Airport now reopened but aircraft are not where they are suppossed to be so quite a few
delays
Mango has delays on most flights even Cape Town and 1 time also a few delays
Signol From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2007, 2948 posts, RR: 7 Reply 11, posted (4 years 11 months 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 3403 times:
That's got to hurt the city's reputation... Let's hope the drainage at La Mercy is better than at the current DUR! It doesn't rain much in Durban, but when it does, it's heavy.
Good to hear that the airport is open again, my wife's in Durban at the moment and will be flying home on Saturday (with Kulula and KLM).
Vambridge From South Africa, joined Apr 2001, 80 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (4 years 11 months 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 3209 times:
One can never under estimate the influence of weather on operations of airlines. For every incident that happens there is probably 10 close calls that nobody ever finds out about.
Hope the aircraft is not badly damaged. Does anybody have a Reg?
Speedbird128 From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 1134 posts, RR: 2 Reply 21, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 2521 times:
Was a crap day in general...
I had two flights (with the same pax and crew) come back from Durbs twice that morning without landing... Mango & Kulula both went around at Durbs due wind&rain, then diverted back to JNB. They landed here at JNB and refuelled waiting for the wx to improve and departed again. Got to VAVAN and then runway was announced closed. Diverted back to JNB again. SAA534 got a quick turn back before APDAK even, -she was lucky and got back into JNB quickly- as things were starting to back up from the south at STV and ESTED again...
30 A390: Indeed looks like a B737-200 to me also. Why they say B737-300 in a media statement only they would know.
31 AIR MALTA: It surprises me that COMAIR is still operating the 737-200. Are they planning to replace their ageing fleet?
32 SNA752: Actually, it isn't a 200 either, we are all completely wrong! It's actually an A380 that went off the runway. Two of the engines sheared off, the tai
33 Trekster: I really thought they had gotten rid of the 732, and moved onto 3 and 400's Might have to make a trip to SA to fly them then, never been on a 732, and
34 Andz: Where's that picture.... "aw jeez, not this shit again" This is Africa, a lot of airlines still operate 732s perfectly safely and without incident. I
35 Speedbird128: I know that SAA did this in an A320 (ZS-SHG) in Lusaka, with worse results (ripped off MLG etc). And somewhere along the line they did an off-road wi
36 AIR MALTA: Well, I love the 732s and I used to enjoy those of KM between Tunis and Malta. So I have nothing against them. It is just Comair needs to update its
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