Pictured: A SA Airlink with a different British Aerospace plane, A Jetstream 41 instead of a Avro RJ-85
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Contact photographer Eddy Cuperus
What: SA Airlink Avro RJ-85 en route from Johannesburg to Nelspruit Krueger (South Africa)
Where: on approach to the Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport
When: Nov 8th 2009
Who: 26 passengers from Malta, Britain, Tanzania and Switzerland
Why: On approach, the brake hydraulics failed. The landing was aborted, and the flight was redirected back to OR Tambo by ATC. The plane made a “soft landing” however.
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