Should mention, the public transport system in my area also has the acronym of SCAT. >_

@@DiRF SCAT is the second-largest Airline in Kazachstan behind Air Astana.

Comments like that will only leave a nasty taste in everyone's mouth!

Thank you for this. This crash must have been a traumatic event for every of this survivors.

@@NicolaW72 and lucky for us EAA pilots who weren't on that flight., but I may have continued to Nairobi after the nose wheel tyre burst, as Addis was short, high altitude and not really suitable for an emergency stop. However, the Capt. followed procedures, before V2, tried to stop, assured he had enough runway.. NOT expecting a brake failure, due to poor maintenance on a brake oil seal. (Rtd Snr. Capt. SVC10. EAA)

@@TommyTCGT Thank you for this information.

@@TommyTCGT Great information. But do you mean V1 not V2?

this, so much this.

Indeed.

Perhaps a editing oversight (having made videos in the past; I've found it's an easy gaff to make, and typically one noticed too late to alter) Personally [as someone with an affinity for flags] the dominion / colony & protectorate era ones are more visually interesting / intrieging. (Canada's in particular; which has far more symbolism thereon than the present one; which was nicknamed early on as "a dinosaur's footprint")

Yup, learned to fly there in 1957 on a Tiger moth.. and went on to be a Senior Capt. on the SVC10s in 1970.. after flying DC3, F27 and Comet IVc. Nicest to fly were the DC3s.. aiming for constant power approaches right down to greasers.

Seconded!

Oh, and re EAA I flew a few legs on DC9s Uganda - Kenia - Tansania too. I remember there was an incident. We missed a flight and that flight missed the runway, or shot over.

What railway is that??

That railway was operated by East African Railways, another joint entity operated by the same colonies as the EAA. I remember it running from Mombasa on the Kenyan coast to Kampala, Uganda, on the shores of Lake Victoria. I travelled from Nairobi to Kampala in May 1959 (as a child) and remember it as a wonderful 24 hour trip. The train was slow and we went very high up, our compartment had seats that converted to bunks at night and we were summoned to meals by a steward in a white coat walking down the train sounding a small gong. We did the reverse trip 2 years later when my father was posted to Nairobi and it was just as good. In 1986 I took my family to Kenya for a holiday and we took Kenya Railways from Nairobi to Mombasa and back, the route to Uganda having been discontinued due to political problems. It was the same type of experience and even some of the Sheffield cutlery and English tableware was still there complete with the old EAR insignia. It was mixed in with modern replacements from Korea.

@@peterodonnell5820 Thanks for the personal account. It's a topic that's intrieged me for a long time, but is unfortunately rarely covered in detail.

Total financial chaos, monies stolen, records in shambles, management corrupted, countries refusing to pay their share. On a London flight in 1973, a passenger who was a board member of Eat African Airways,( whom I met in my 2 year bush flying days, Bruce Mackenzie, when he was the Minister of Agriculture). He told me the airline would not make it.. so I left shortly afterwards for Cathay Pacific. Bruce Mackenzie was on an official visit to Uganda and had had a meeting with Prez. Idi Amin. Back at Entebbe airport, Bruce was told to wait for a gift from Prez. Amin. The gitf was a stuffed lion's head. After take off on the small charter plane, the BOMB in the head was triggered by an altitude sensor and exploded, killing all aboard. Nobody knew WHY.

'Rory' i think!

Great night stops there at the Agip Motel. Lobster always on the menu for our one freebie meal. Celebrated my DC3 command check there, with Capt, Jerry Sirley a DC3 Capt. On that day's final approach into Dar, with a full pax load, and a French check Capt, at about 600ft, he switched of the the fuel to one engine, so I had to do the full feathering drill, applied massive power to the remaining engine and landed, passing the test. The engine was restarted and we taxied in. Next day the headlines in Dar news papers screamed... East African Airways DC3 has engine failure just before landing, The Check Capt got a right rollocking. next day

Thumping on landings? That depended if the pilot flying has was hung over!

My wife Margaret Allen -Price joined BOAC (Better of on a Camel ) in1963 and regularly flew to East Africa.I can vouch fo your remarks about the Boeing 707 she said it was like chalk and cheese moving onto VC 10 and sometimes the landings were so smooth you had barely no warning to finish clearing the cabin. It was great shame it's engines were not more fuel efficient. I might add I also enjoyed my fights on both BOAC and East African Airways VC 10s.

Err nope. That's not how history works.

@@jimtaylor294 Well I choose *NOT* to recognise the *EVIL, DESPICABLE REGIME OF APARTHEID!* So I give recognition *ONLY* to the *LEGITIMATE FIRST PRESIDENT of South Africa, *Mr Nelson Mandella!*

^ Definitely not a virtue signalling attempt XD. History doesn't care about your feelings, anymore than the afrikaans speaking world does. They have real issues to deal with; such as being stuck under a democratically dubious Mugabe'ian regime that's as economically inept as it is racist.

@@neilforbes416 It's not as if the last 25+ years of ANC government has made anything better, is it? Still horrible levels of black poverty, and the distance between rich and poor is still the same. Just more rich blacks, that's all.

You cannot say Germany didn´t exist between 1933 and 1945 because it had during this time one of the most horrible political regime´s which ever existed in history. That would be nonsense, too. Adolf Hitler was Chancellor of Germany and DeKlerk and Botha were Presidents of South Africa. Germany existed between 1933 and 1945 and everybody else in Europe and in the whole world had to feel it - and South Africa existed before 1994 - and the Apartheid is as much part of his history as the Nazi Dictatorship is part of the German history. You cannot escape history by neglecting its existence. I´m stating this as a German.