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    South African Airways Flight 406, also known as The Rietbok Crash, was a scheduled passenger flight on 13 March 1967 that crashed into the sea on approach...
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  • Flight 406 may refer to: Air France Flight 406, crashed on 10 May 1961 South African Airways Flight 406, crashed on 13 March 1967 Millon Air Flight 406...
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  • South African Airways (SAA) is the flag carrier of South Africa. Founded in 1934, the airline is headquartered in Airways Park at O. R. Tambo International...
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  • province of South Africa. According to the census of 2011 it had 697 inhabitants. On 13 March 1967, the South African Airways Flight 406 crashed into...
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  • board. March 13 – South African Airways Flight 406, a Vickers Viscount 818, crashed in the Indian Ocean off Cape Province, South Africa while on approach...
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  • bid, Flight International, 27 July 1972, p. 116 Skytrain ..., Flight International, 27 July 1972, p. 117 Laker Airways Limited Website Laker Airways Photo...
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  • Airways Crash - a Fokker 50 operated by Jabba Airways crashed on landing and rolled over in Mogadishu, Somalia. 13 March 1967 - South African Airways...
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    King Phalo Airport (category Use South African English from June 2012)
    1,585 by 46 metres (5,200 ft × 151 ft). On 13 March 1967, South African Airways Flight 406 crashed into the Indian Ocean while on approach to King Phalo...
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    as South African Airways Flight 406 crashed into the sea off East London killing all 25 people on board. On 3 May 1967, G-AVJZ of Channel Airways was...
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  • from which a flight recorder has been recovered is 16,000 feet (4,900 m), for the CVR of South African Airways Flight 295. Most flight recorders are...
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    cabin duty with British Airways flight attendants. All flight crew, operations, and insurances remained solely under British Airways however, and at no point...
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     Ceylon Air Ceylon East African Community East African Airways (original operator)  Ghana Ghana Airways (original operator)  Lebanon Middle East Airlines...
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  • for numerous flight services, which were contracted to South African Protea Airways, via a local subsidiary, Air Services Botswana. Flight operations began...
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    South African Airways), fuel tanks over the wing in the rear of the engine nacelles, each carrying 220 US gallons (183 imp gal; 833 L). South African...
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  • Jinnah  South Africa Protea Airways South African Airways Suldair International Airways Trek Airways United Airways  Southern Rhodesia Central African Airways...
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    African destinations to the network. In April 2006, Swiss International Air Lines, the alliance's sixth European airline, and South African Airways (its...
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    Nippon Airways livery, flew to Boeing Field on December 22, 2009, to join the flight test program; the third 787, ZA004 made its first flight on February...
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  • of South African Airways Flight 406, a Vickers Viscount 818, suffers a heart attack while the airliner is on approach to East London, South Africa. The...
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    Juba International Airport (category Airports in South Sudan)
    air-route, and established a mooring place near Rejaf to the south of Juba, for Imperial Airways’ Calcutta flying-boats, which carried passengers between...
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    section South African Airways Deruluft Aeroflot Iberia Airlines AB Aerotransport Ju-Air (still used, used only 2 Ju 52) Turkish Airlines British Airways Limited...
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  • Vickers Viscount South African Airways Flight 406 ZS-EUW Boeing 707-344C South African Airways Flight 228 ZS-NRM BAe Jetstream 41 Airlink Flight 8911 ZS-SAS...
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    Licensing Board", Flight International, pp. 471–473, 13 April 1961 Airways – B.O.A.C.'s Rolls-Royce Boeing 707s (Cunard Eagle Airways and BOAC-Cunard)...
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    (All Nippon Airways-58)". Aviation Safety Network. 30 July 1971. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "ASN Accident Description (West Caribbean Airways-708)". Aviation...
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  • Air France British Airways Brussels Airlines Kenya Airways KLM LAM Mozambique Airlines Lufthansa Royal Air Maroc South African Airways TAAG operates the...
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    Israeli scientists working at South Africa's Pelindaba nuclear facility. South African Airways began operating flights between Johannesburg and Tel Aviv...
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    philosopher and scientist Isaac Scott Hathaway, 94, African-American sculptor South African Airways Flight 406, a Vickers Viscount 818 with 20 passengers and...
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    interline agreement with the following airlines: Azerbaijan Airlines Bangkok Airways Belavia China Southern Airlines El Al Emirates flydubai Gulf Air Turkish...
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  • serves Africa: it operates scheduled flights to Marrakech and Casablanca in Morocco and Laayoune in Western Sahara, alongside charter flights to Nouadibou...
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    service, thus demonstrating the wide-ranging flight capabilities of the Twin Otter. Rocky Mountain Airways went on to become the worldwide launch customer...
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    Airways International were postponed to address delamination of the composite materials in the PW4168 engine's thrust reverser assembly. Thai Airways...
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