NewStats: 3,265,243 , 8,186,109 topics. Date: Saturday, 14 June 2025 at 03:42 AM 2p3h2g

Yes, it happened!

One of South Africa's Airlink aircraft collided with Africa’s heaviest flying bird - the Kori bustard - snapping off a propeller blade and sending it hurtling into the cabin.

The incident happened on Monday.

The crew and engers on this charter flight from Johannesburg to Limpopo province had a lucky escape.

The airline said in a statement that an Airlink Jetstream 41 aircraft operating a private charter flight struck a large bird upon landing at Venetia airfield.

The large bird, believed to be a kori bustard, flew into the right-hand propeller. The Kori Bustard is Africa’s heaviest flying bird. A large male can weigh as much as 19kg and have a wingspan of 275cm.

“None of the engers or crew were injured, although the aircraft sustained substantial damage.

“In compliance with aviation protocols and regulations, the occurrence was reported to the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA), which will conduct an investigation,” it said.

Airlink furthermore said the damaged aircraft remains at Venetia airfield pending the SACAA’s inspection and a full damage assessment.

Photos from inside the aircraft show splinters of wood strewn across the floor.

The blade luckily landed in an area of the cabin which was unoccupied.

Bits of the propeller embedded in a seat and fragments scattered on the aircraft floor can be seen in the photos. The blade gouged a hole in the fuselage and broke a cabin window.

Bird strikes have been an all-too-common occurrence since the dawn of aviation.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timeslive.co.za/amp/news/south-africa/2022-01-05-lucky-escape-for-engers-after-airlink-plane-collides-with-bird/

Male kori bustards range in weight from 11-19 kilograms and females are roughly half the size of the males. They are the Africa's heaviest flying birds. They also stand about 1.5 meters tall. Kori bustards are distributed throughout eastern and southern Africa. They inhabit wide, open grasslands and lightly wooded savanna.

This is a typical example of when your village people have your GPS coordinates

You mean na that kind soft wood dem use do plane?

village pifu

Was the plane made of cardboard paper?

Only Pastor Righteousness89 can explain this unnatural phenomenon!

I am too small to comment on this .

thesicilian:
Was the plane made of cardboard paper?

Looks like that part was made of plywood and eaten by rodents to me

Amotolongbo:
Looks like that part was made of plywood and eaten by rodents to me

Lol Amotolongbo my nigga, you might be right though.


So that aeroplane made with cardboard is SA biggest airline, incredulous!

chatinent:
You mean na that kind soft wood dem use do plane?

It's a 90s model, looks like modern planes use aluminium.

Wood was commonly used in older planes.

More like kori bastard...

lkillbrokehoes:


So that aeroplane made with cardboard is SA biggest airline, incredulous!

Fancy meeting you in yet another SA thread trolling as usual, my dear Ikissbrokejoes

Are you confusing SA Airlink with SA Airways (SAA). Been overdosing on mkupu mmiri my brother?

FYI, SA's largest airline is ComAir (Kulula.com), followed by SAA, then Mango and then FlySAFair.

These 4 are part of Africa's Top 10 biggest airlines. I looked everywhere for a single Nigerian airline on the list and couldn't find any

https://www.theafricalogistics.com/2020/06/22/top-10-largest-airlines-in-africa-2/

In Nigeria this would have been termed village people, poor bird would have been set on fire while engers troop to churches today to give testimony

It was the Propeller force that sent the bird to break the cabin window.

The bird hitting directly on the cabin window cannot break it.

A small stone of 1 kilogram will cause thesame damage to the window if it hits the propeller at the same angle.

TMKsouth:


Fancy meeting you in yet another SA thread trolling as usual, my dear Ikissbrokejoes

Are you confusing SA Airlink with SA Airways (SAA). Been overdosing on mkupu mmiri my brother?

FYI, SA's largest airline is ComAir (Kulula.com), followed by SAA, then Mango and then FlySAFair.

These 4 are part of Africa's Top 10 biggest airlines. I looked everywhere for a single Nigerian airline on the list and couldn't find any

https://www.theafricalogistics.com/2020/06/22/top-10-largest-airlines-in-africa-2/

UP NAIJA @GIANT OF AFRICA

fati2001:

fati2001

I know Ikissbrokejoes. He has a love-hate relationship with SA.

TMKsouth:




I know Ikissbrokejoes. He has a love-hate relationship with SA.

LOLZ

THAT IS DEVIL IN HUMAN FORM..
HE HATE ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT SOMETHING or SOMEONE.

fati2001:


LOLZ

THAT IS DEVIL IN HUMAN FORM..
HE HATE ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT SOMETHING or SOMEONE.

Don't worry - I've made it my mission to beat the 'hell' out of him on this forum

TMKsouth:


Don't worry - I've made it my mission to beat the 'hell' out of him on this forum

Hahahahaha xenophobic negro, you never told me you got a b*tch on this forum, btw both of you befits each other, very useless and jobless set of people.

thesicilian:
Was the plane made of cardboard paper?

That's the so called ShitFrica best aeroplane, these xenophobic niggas never cease to amaze me.

lkillbrokehoes:
Hahahahaha xenophobic negro, you never told me you got a b*tch on this forum, btw both of you befits each, very useless and jobless set of people.

chairman

Ahmback:
chairman

Comrade

lkillbrokehoes:
Comrade

easy on him

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lkillbrokehoes:
Hahahahaha xenophobic negro, you never told me you got a b*tch on this forum, btw both of you befits each other, very useless and jobless set of people.

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yet, here you are very useless for even thing and make a comment about the ppl you called useless and jobless....

SMH


I HAVE NEVER SAW /OR CAME ACROSS YOUR POST DOING GIVE AWAY TO UR COMERADES Yet yOU ALWAYS CLAIMED JOBNESS

how is your darling? HOPE SAY SHE NEVER REMOVE ALL THE INTESTINES FINISH IN THE NAME OF ABORTION.. and hope say YOU STILL WIFE HER AFTER EXPANDING THE VAGINA CANAL?

lkillbrokehoes:
That's the so called ShitFrica best aeroplane, these xenophobic niggas never cease to amaze me.

On this list of Africa's Top10 airlines, I searched for COWgerian Airways (a place where cows are more valuable than you) - but couldn't find it

https://www.theafricalogistics.com/2020/06/22/top-10-largest-airlines-in-africa-2/

Ahmback:
easy on him

No I won't take it easy on that nigga, he doesn't deserve peace.

Just look at the useless person switching s to like her posts, from fati2001 to jeon, f*cking nonentity.

chatinent:
You mean na that kind soft wood dem use do plane?

Lol

fati2001:


[s]YOU ARE USELESS AND A BIG FOOL..


WHO CAN TAKE YOUR POSITION ON NAIRALAND IN OF SWITCHING UP IN DIFFERENT MONIKERS TO TROLL? and ALSO DENY EVEN WHEN YOU ARE CAUGHT RED HANDED


you are the perfect description of this photo

POT CALL-IN KETTLE BLACK[/s]

Ahmback I give you this useless person, I don't have time for nonentities and lowlifes

lkillbrokehoes:
Ahmback I give you this useless person, I don't have time for nonentities and lowlifes

Neither do i. You can't cure permanent madness

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lkillbrokehoes:
Ahmback I give you this useless person, I don't have time for nonentities and lowlifes

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WEAK ASS LEAF THAT AS BEEN REJECTED BY THE BRANCH OF A TREE...


U ARE USELESS AND LOWLIFE FOR SHARING THE SAME FORUM WITH ME..



GO TO LIPSTICK ALLEY AND SEE HOW WE ROLL THERE, NO TIME FOR STUPIDITY YOU DISPLAY HERE ON NL.. YOU TALK SHIT, WE TELL OR PUT YOU WHERE YOU BELONG..