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I know. It's nostalgic and depressing. I had a Lebanese American friend visit the other day and they said it seems like South Africans have given up. She said even when her country was at war they all still had hope.
@@Michael-nu6fb difference is in South Africa you would love to think positive, but the reality is you would be very nieve to believe there's any hope, sort of the captain knowing when to abandon ship, or go down with, it's very sad😐
Epic retro plane spotting especially the 747SP, I didn't know BA had 727s either. Sadly the good old days of getting your ears blasted out and the thunder of rumbling in your tummy are long gone, god I so miss them days.
These aircraft were basically engined with the same high bypass ratio engines as todays aircraft, the engine's that used to blast your ears were old 727, DC10, and first models 747, and 707 aircraft, with the pure jet 3 stage jet engines
Yes the old south African airways, is one of the oldest airways in the world, and were the flag ship for Boeing aircraft, I think the Boeing 747 so was one of them,
These were the days I would hang out at Jan Smuts for entire days just watching the gorgeous aircraft of the time - nowadays it’s Dreamliners and 350s - beautiful but not quite the same, 90% of these types don’t fly anymore and are scrap, it’s crazy to see how long the 727 was around, and the Fokkers were amazing too. Happy memories
THE YEAR I STARTED FLYING FOR SAA!!! That mixed fleet was a nightmare for SEPT exams. But I loved flying so much I made sure I passed. Life a non-stop party!!
Such powerful nostalgia! Beautiful era for aviation in South Africa. Loved seeing the overnight heavies from Europe lined up on delta apron during the day and the unusual routes that have since ended, such as the Malaysia 747-400 flying KUL-JNB-CPT-EZE twice a week.
12:00 crashed in 2009. lost height after takeoff following engine fire and impacted a school fence, killing the captian and seriously injuring 4 others 15:00 crashed in 2013 as Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 following pilot error during a go-around, killing all 50 on board 23:25 that's actually one of the Boeing Dreamlifters (N718BA)! Back when they weren't converted and were still normal 747s 26:09 Last remaining passenger 747-200 (I think). Still active to this day with IranAir 28:18 crashed in 2004 as MK Airlines Flight 1602. Lost height shortly after takeoff due to incorrect takeoff speed. Remains as the deadliest crash in MK Airlines' history at 7 fatalities 35:28 the same aircraft that was used by Chris Phatswe to crash into two other Air Botswana ATR-42s as a suicide in 1999. This incident nearly ceased operations for Air Botswana as their only three planes that were in service at the time were destroyed, leaving them with a single faulty BAe 146 that hadn't been used in a year. 43:03 'crashed' as Adam Air Flight 172 in 2007; landed so hard the fuselage broke into two. 2 injuries 55:02 was damaged beyond repair in 2015 while landing at the town of Wamena; suffering collapse of the left hand main gear on touchdown 57:51 The plane involved in the 1998 Lignes Aériennes Congolaises shootdown, where the plane was shot down by rebel forces as it took off from Kindu Airport, killing all 41 on board
Its sad that SAA has gone down the path of bankruptcy several times Their financial situation has been chaos. Especially ever since COVID, they sold all their planes Hopefully they can bounce back well enough this time round
Why is seeing a South African 747 Crazy, SAA had twenty eight 747 type aircraft, twenty one 737 aircraft thirty two 727 , and plenty Airbus type aircraft
Best thing ever..now its parked at a museum in East Rand and being an aviation geek i drive there just to visit it and walk the isles and just take it in
@@bluecouchpodcast24 ooooh that’s going to be a Saturday drive soon 👌🏽 Thanks so much for the info champ. I’m in the process of becoming an aviation geek. 😂
I was flying a lot from and to SA in this period and can actually recall most of those Companies, aircraft and paint schemes. Who knows I was inside one of the planes in the footage! Lekker ❤
i live 5km from this airport still nice to watch these aircraft the747 were super cool my friend was a flight engineer on them he started with the constellations andvickers vickounts and 707 boeing then 747s awesome
I had most of JPV’s(including JNB) International collection on VHS and later DVDs, oh, the memories… 8:46 Look at all those Boeings, the way things are headed, Boeing may be going the way of DeHallivand, so sad….
So much interesting and beautiful variety back there, loved every clip. On another topic, i went reg. for reg. and in the video were seen 3 ill-fated planes; ZS-SAR who crashed in Canada registered as 9K-MKJ and operating for MK Airlines, 9Q-CSG who was shot down shortly after, and XA-SWO who crashed in Indonesia operating for Adam Air with registration PK-KKV.
Some excellent footage there. Some of those Comair (BA franchise) B737-200s are very early basic examples. The one at 59:02 even still has the secondary inlet doors on the engines.
@@preslavdavidov3740 I understand but what is the connection between Bulgaria and S. Africa?, tourism, business, gold, what? I don't see any purpose for these flights
Nice. A Cubana IL-62M. Super nice. Alliance Air 747SP take off, and a SAL one at he end, all others were being tugged. Really weird. Nationwide (Sabena) BAC1-11. Really different: Emirates likely A310 (too far and blurred to see) Gorgeous paint scheme on the 747 in the hangar. Johannesburg was the land of 747s, A340s and MD-11 / DC-10, as european and asian airlines had to fly a long way to arrive there. One or 2 years earlier and TAP Air Portugal L-1011s would be regular visits too.
LOVE the old planes: 727, straight-pipe 737-200 and squashed-nacelle -300, A310, DC-9 10 series, DC-10, 747-200, silly-idea 747SP, stupid A340 quad jet, classic 707, mother-Fokker 100... That Air Namibia 767-300ER at 17:45 is a beautiful bird! The gold stripe makes the plane look even longer. IL-62 at 39:06 !!! I notice all the BA livery planes have ZS- registrations.
The British Airways jet, apart for the big 747, were not essentially British Airways. The were operated by ComAir who were licenced to fly under the British Airways branding. So not BA
This a mixed video over a long period of time the new flag for south-Africa and the new colors and design came long after 1977 the orange tail with the springbok on was only started to be phased in post- apartheid (1994) I would guess around 1995 / 1996 . SA Airlink did not Start until the early 2000's
thought that 727 at the beginning was never going to get off the ground - then I remembered that JHB airport is 'hot and high'. A good mile or so in altitude.
No its probably stop overs at some other places , and if you didn't know , in south africa we had British airways owning most of our airliner companies , but they dont exist anymore 😢 but they owned most of them thats why they were operating here .
reading this, I wonder if they have old footage from any city from my country as well. Don't have much hope (not a lot of variety) but would be cool if they did
We have Suvarnab. 2019 and 2023 so not really old, we do have Don Mueang just not sure if we have those in our library any longer. If we do we'll post it here.
57:55 This Congo Airlines B727 was shot out of the sky in 1998 with a Sam 7 missile shortly after takeoff from Kindu, Congo killing al 41 occupants aboard.
Man I miss all the abstract art on these birds ESPECIALLY the tail art, now everything is streamlined and dull… lookin at you modern American Airlines…
Yes, apartheid in SA were terrible days just looking at South Africa's flourishing No1 airline and infrastructure. There was actually nothing left as one can see. It was a shithole under apartheid that's clear...
African air industry is still thriving, why does everyone seem to blame everything on SA government. The economy then and now is not the same, Airbus for example has struggled a lot after Covid, yes the current government sucks just like all other governments in the world. Just that some have the privilege of printing money from thin air
talking about everything. The ANC has not upgraded anything since 1994 unemployment rate are sky high Crime are sky high murder are 10x more jho these a lot@@nmkbanzee4787