CAAZ Investigates Charter Plane Turned Back At OR Tambo
The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) is investigating reports that a private charter plane carrying an Italian national from Zimbabwe was on Wednesday turned away by authorities at OR Tambo International Airport in South Africa.
The plane, a Beech 200 Super King Air owned by Halsted Aviation, was allowed to take off from the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport on April 1 and landed at OR Tambo at 12.30 PM.
CAAZ acting spokesperson David Kanyandu said investigations were already underway as only cargo planes are allowed into the country. He said:
We saw the report on social media and since yesterday, I have been unsuccessfully trying to establish the truth. We are yet to find out whether or not the plane was from Zimbabwe.
If that is true, we have to find out the circumstances under which it flew to South Africa.
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Our airspace is watertight and, for now, we are only allowing cargo planes that bring in emergency supplies like medical equipment, face masks, sanitisers and, other life-saving goods.
We also allow some other emergency flights, but I have no details of whether that particular plane was on the list of those authorised for the day.
Meanwhile, the government on Friday gazetted Statutory Instrument 86 of 2020 which designated Ethiopian Airways the sole airline operating in Zimbabwe to bring in ventilators, face masks, sanitisers and, other essential medical requirements.
