Civil aviation working ‘hand-in-hand’ with SAA amid grounding of flights
The South African Civil Aviation Authority says South African Airways (SAA) has to give an assurance that its grounded aircraft meet the regulatory requirement before they can fly again.
Several South African Airlines planes failed to take to the skies as planned on Tuesday morning.
SACAA also clipped Comair's wings, with Kulula and British Airways flights grounded on Monday evening, in the wake of an audit by one of its maintenance and technical service providers South African Airways Technical (SAAT).
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SACAA spokesperson Phindile Gwebu says national carrier has since submitted a Corrective Action Plan to the Regulator, addressing irregularities found on two of their commercial airlines.
"We expect that they give us evidence of where they have picked deficiencies and they have resolved them.
"Once we are satisfied with the evidence that they have provided we will then basically allow them to use the aircraft again".