Plane with 164 aboard just 30m from midair collision at King Phalo Airport

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A jet with 164 people on board came within 30m of disaster when the student pilot at the controls of a light aircraft mixed up 'left' and right'.

The Safair Boeing 737-400 involved in a near-miss with a light aircraft flown by a student pilot at East London airport on August 25 2021.A jet with 164 people on board came within 30m of disaster when a student pilot at the controls of a light aircraft mixed up “left” and right”.

The Piper Cherokee from 43 Air School in Port Alfred which was involved in the near-miss with a Safair jet at East London airport on August 25 2021.The pilot, identified in the report as a Ghanaian with “expert” English skills, was on a solo navigational training flight from Port Alfred in a four-seater Piper Cherokee owned by 43 Air School.

A radar image from the CAA report shows"vertical separation [between the planes] was around 100ft and no lateral separation" at 7.25:39am on August 25 2021.The Safair jet would have been flying at around 250km/h when the student pilot passed about 30m directly overhead as the jet made its final approach at around 132m above the ground.

 

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Left wing?

Eh! Le nyaka ho re bolaya ka di eropleini nou? 🙆🏽‍♂️

Deductions from, SJR had the Sen insight hence he proceeded from 10 km seps to within 50m. (Otherwise he should have increased Vert Seps) (No lateral) Sen turned onto the path of t SJR at angle less than 090°. SJR would have been at least 1.5 faster than t Seneca.

That would be me as a pilot. Never know left from right. Thank me stars I am a pensioner.

ntando_nsele

How the fck is letting a student pilot a plane full of passengers even a consideration let alone an ACTUAL THING THAT HAPPENED? FlySafair best you answer.

can only be SAA!

Yeah its not a taxi its a plane

Gratuity_za Bloody ANC😡😡😡

He must go back to Ghana.

'Army left ,army left'

Scary shit

why is a student in charge of the controls - which airline - i shall avoid them

Will watch it soon on air cash investigation

I Stan the ATC that was on duty

BamboThulani Oh my word

EFF pilots

Jesus take The yoke. The control tower should have been clear and say over left.

Kick that foreigner out of SA

Yet the student pilot was allowed to keep flying? Should he not have been grounded immediately?

Air Traffic Controllers Re struggling to hear what Chinese are saying, they must attend English classes first and pilot training. Sessna aircrafts are a risk to busy airports. On the other hand Avi-schools generate revenue for ACSA.

Student pilot? 😳😳 Is the flysafair management team that ignorant? Don't these youngsters get their mental state of balance tested before they fly real people?

kidmago ...so we're flown by students 🤔its all experiment and shit😭

Air Traffic Controller to Student Pilot: 'We are going left...over, I said LEFT over...Noooooo your other LEFT... 😆🤣😂😹😆

SAA is flying again remember that.

A good example that it's a lie that you can master anything or be good at what you put you mind in.

Makubeyele eGhana mtakabawo haybo because left rigt left right left right zinto zase creche ezo

There's that 30% pass mark showing itself

Why are we surprised - we see tweets every day from people who clearly can't tell left from right!

Remove that student pilot's license. If he doesnt know his left from his right then he is in the wrong profession. Sorry.

😩I am the student Struu

And y’all think not knowing the difference between left and right is cute 😂😅🤣

Thixo wam!!!!

Bathong 😮😲😧😳😱😳😨😰

Nyakile ba bone masepa moes

I like plane crash videos, nkabe ba di tlogele di thulane! 😫

Eh 😳😲

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