Unqualified personnel partly responsible for aircraft grounding
Unqualified technicians signed off shoddy repair work, which is partly why 46 aircraft were grounded earlier this week, Fikile Mbalula says
24 October 2019 - 14:46
Unqualified technicians’ signing off shoddy maintenance work were part of the reason 46 aircraft were grounded earlier this week, transport minister Fikile Mbalula said on Thursday.
The grounding followed an oversight inspection by the SA Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) at SA Airways Technical (SAAT), which services and maintains the fleets of airline companies including SAA, Comair and Mango...
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