'Very high' levels of contamination found in SAA passenger plane tanks after Ghana refuel | Business

Samples taken from fuel tanks of an SAA Airbus A330-300 when it returned to Johannesburg after possibly loading contaminated jet fuel in Accra, Ghana in April last year revealed"very high levels of microbiological contamination".

A visual inspection of the inside of the fuel tanks after draining showed"visible signs of a brown sedimentary deposit", which turned out to be"microbiological matter". Fuel filters removed and investigated also contained this. These are some of the findings of an Aviation Safety Report from SAA, dated 26 May 2022, and seen by News24. The report formed part of documents provided by the Department of Public Enterprises on 20 January 2023 in response to questions posed by Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts in November 2022.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.

_Business Good

_Business Last year's news

_Business An SAA plane.

_Business I see loads of eviation experts here in the comments. 😂🤣

_Business Oh wow, this is such a diplomatic mess! But knowing RSA Gov

_Business 😳🦠

_Business My cousin's husband WAS pilot for SAA. They called him on 'standby' to fly plane back to CPT. He's obsessed with weather & knew there was hail storms this plane went through. Nothing on the log book & report. He took photos & sent to SACAA. They grounded plane. SAA suspended him.

_Business There are easy and relatively cheap solutions to this .. just another opportunity to spend millions on something so simple , never mind the the safety aspects.

_Business TanakaSDG mhofellow LisaniMathiya come here gents and learn from the experts in the comment section 🫣

_Business Fuel contamination was suspected after the aircraft failed to start one of it's engines in Accra. Fuel was drained, aircraft refuelled and sent on it's way. Aircraft should not have departed Accra before full investigation. Indicates management failures at many levels.

_Business Isn't oil dead biological matter?

_Business I rest my case crooked to the core

_Business Ereng 'black excellence' mo ngo'aneng?

_Business Were they loading from the sewage tank ?

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