The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief has said, as a massive air and sea search continues.
Officials are looking at CCTV footage and questioning immigration officers and guards at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport over a missing airplane.
The department of international relations says no South Africans were on the Malaysia Airlines jet, which vanished with 239 people on board.
Two passports lost or stolen in Thailand on separate occasions were used to board the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
A Malaysia Airlines flight has gone missing, presumably crashed, as ships and planes from countries closest to its path scour the area for wreckage.
A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing has lost contact with air traffic controllers.
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/ 25 February 2008
More than 95% of airlines operating in the country have signed contracts with two new baggage handlers, the Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) said on Monday. The handlers will be required to submit quarterly service and customer experience reports for Acsa to assess the performance of the new licensees.
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/ 15 November 2007
Trade union Solidarity has served court papers on South African Airways Technical (SAAT) division to stop its retrenchment process on the grounds that it is procedurally unfair. Last week SAA announced that it had support from trade unions on restructuring plans that would lift the airline out of massive financial losses.
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/ 25 October 2007
The days of cursing the passenger in front of you could be over. On the world’s biggest airliner, the Airbus A380, it is the little things that will make travel more comfortable for ordinary flyers, said Tom Ballantyne, senior correspondent for the industry publication <i>Orient Aviation</i>.