FlySafair denies emergency landing was declared in one of its local planes

Local low-cost airline FlySafair has denied that one if its planes had to do an emergency landing at the OR T ambo International Airport in Johannesburg.

The alleged incident happened on Monday, 19 June on a flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg.

PASSENGER FEARS FOR THEIR SAFETY AFTER EMERGENCY LANDING

One of the passengers who was aboard the plane took to Facebook said 28 minutes before landing there was an emergency announcement that they must prepare for an emergency landing.

The passenger said it was a very serious situation and they believed that would not be walking away from it alive.

“Before we took off from Cape Town it was announced that the flight is delayed due to engine problems that were detected during an earlier (or previous) flight. Despite this, they went ahead with the flight to Johannesburg.

“I don’t feel safe about flying with FlySafair again and the fact that they deny the seriousness of matter makes me very unhappy,” the passenger said.

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FLYSAFAIR DENIES ALLEGATIONS

FlySafair spokesperson Kirby Gordon told News24 that the aircraft only made a priority landing and that no full emergency was declared.

Gordon said the landing was made after the engine registered a slightly higher than usual vibration.

“On the descent into Johannesburg, the vibration alert sounded, and the captain asked for priority landing. They did not declare a full emergency,” he told the publication.

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