SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
December 22:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1856: Timor, this wooden sailing barque wrecked in a south-easterly gale between Robben Island and Whale Rock in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
1894: Bonanza, this wooden sailing barque wrecked on Orient Beach in East London in the Eastern Cape after having lost steerage and becoming unmanageable whilst entering the Buffalo River.
1933: Swan, this wooden steam-powered and auxiliary sailing fishing vessel wrecked at Margate Ridge at Margate in KwaZulu-Natal.
2013: A British Airways 747-436 (registration no. G-BNLL) was written off after sustaining substantial damage during a taxi accident at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg in Gauteng.
The plane wing in the damaged building
The lights and signage which guided planes from taxiway B to where it merged with taxiway A towards runway 03L were inoperable and the crew missed the curve at night and proceeded on the much smaller taxiway M, where the plane’s right wing struck a building next to the taxiway, injuring four workers on the second floor. The plane was immobilized and after a fuel leak was contained, passengers and crew were deplaned.
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