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Aircraft Accident Report
Operator and Owner : South African Airways
Aircraft : Boeing 747-224B "Combi" - Serial No. 22171
Nationality : South African
Registration : ZS-SAS
| Place of Accident : | In the Indian Ocean 134 nautical miles North-East of Plaisance Airport, Mauritius. |
| Date and Time of Accident : | November 28th 1987, at approximately 00:07:00 |
| Note: | Save where otherwise expressly indicated all times stated in this report are in Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC). |
Synopsis
On November 27th 1987 at 14:23, flight SA 295, a Boeing 747-244B Combi of South African Airways, departed from Taipei's Chiang Kai Shek Airport for Mauritius' Plaisance Airport with 159 persons on board. In the main deck cargo hold 6 pallets of cargo had been loaded. Some 9 hours out and some 46 minutes before the estimated time of arrival at Plaisance the flight deck informed
