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Trip Start Nov 12, 2007
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Trip End Dec 17, 2007


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Sunday, November 11, 2007

This is it, tomorrow morning I'm off to the jungle. The plane leaves at 07.20 from Cape Town, and then from Jo'Burg at 12.00 Around 19.00 we're planning on being in Kampala if everything goes as planned.Some days ago the company we're flying with had some minor problems.... An engine fell off!!! here is what the paper wrote:
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) Nov.7 2007-- A plane carrying more than 100 people made an emergency landing in South Africa after an engine fell off during takeoff from Cape Town on Wednesday, officials said. No injuries were reported.
The Nationwide airline plane, bound for Johannesburg, touched down safely after the airport's fire and rescue services rushed to clear debris from the runway.
The right engine of the Boeing 737 'separated from the wing. The aircraft continued to climb out,' the airline said in a statement. One of the passengers, Pretoria businesswoman Ronel Derman, told the South African Press Association that she had been in a seat directly over the wing and a passenger seated next to her was looking out of the window when the engine dropped. 'I heard this huge bang, and he said, 'That's our engine that's just fallen off.' I couldn't believe it. He had to repeat it to me,' she told SAPA

Well, I think this could be an interesting journey. So stay tuned for more fun :)
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