The business rescue practitioners (BRPs) for South African Airways (SAA) have issued a statement confirming that there had been an ‘Alpha Floor’ incident involving one of the airline’s aircraft on February 24. The aircraft, unidentified in the statement but reported to be an Airbus A340, was operating flight SA4272 to Brussels. State-owned SAA is still under business rescue, a status in which it was placed in December 2019. Prior to going into business rescue, SAA operated a fleet of 49 aircraft, but only nine of these were actually owned by the airline, these being five A340-300s and four A340-600s. The A340 has four engines and so has become uneconomical to operate as the alternative modern airliners in the same category (including Airbus’ A330) all have only two engines.
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