So, for a family half scared of flying this wasn't great news..
(Oh, Nicky, don't read the rest of this blog, skip to the nice one about us getting Wet at Silvermine or me skating on Tuesday...)
Today a plane taking off from Cape Town lost an engine. What amazed me is that the old story of a plane being able to fly with one engine turns out to be true..
Here's some News coverage on www.iol.co.za
And here's some more interesting information
So it turns out that there's a website for looking up the history of commercial air liners.. Entering the registration of our one armed bandit from Cape Town reveals some interesting reading..There seems to be two possible registrations doing the news circuits but both paint the same kind of picture of a 25 year old plane that's had 3 previous owners..
Reg: ZS-OEZ
History of the aircraft
30/01/1981 Lufthansa D-ABFH
02/06/1992 Croatia Airlines RC-CTC
09/07/1992 Croatia Airlines 9A-CTC
Reg: ZS-OMG
27/08/1981 Lufthansa D-ABHP
23/06/1993 Croatia Airlines 9A-CTD
18/10/1999 Nationwide Air Charter ZS-OMG
go see on: www.airfleets.net
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Plane loses engine after take-off in Cape Town
Half Day
Took the afternoon yesterday for a bit of 'me time'.
First was a trip to Muizenberg for a surf which worked out well. Every session sees some small improvement and although I'm still on the hire boards it still a lot of fun. In the back of my mind is still Mr white and his 4 rows of sharp teeth, so the frigid waters of the UK are looking more and more appealing.
Second board sport of the day was a skate session over as Fishhoek at one of the sketchiest homemade skateparks going. Still fun though, althouhg in my 9 years of skating little has improved but a lot gone missing. Still, Ollies, Boardslides and the occasional Pop Shuvit are still fun.. Plus seeing kids faces which essential read "Who's this guy? He looks too old to be that bad at Ollieing up a kerb". Safe to say, I'm not down with the kids anymore.
