And there must be easier ways of getting from Freetown to Bamako than via Accra and Abidjan!
--- On Fri, 6/13/08, Paul Mitchell <paulkakuma@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> From: Paul Mitchell <paulkakuma@yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: SD Sudan Airways, RIP
> To: "Barry Sesnan" <bsesnan@yahoo.com>, "Timothy Brown" <brownunhcr@yahoo.com>, yebu10884@yahoo.com
> Cc: "Blog" <bsesnan.barrysbook@blogger.com>, "Robin Shawyer" <robin@windle.org.uk>, "David Masua" <masuadavid@yahoo.com>
> Date: Friday, June 13, 2008, 12:22 PM
> I knew you wouldn't
> However my flights with KQ have always been good. We can
> all have our off days (inc KQ and SD).
> How are Abidjan Air?
>
> Paul
>
> Paul Mitchell, Regional English Language Advisor,
> Windle Trust International, Southern Sudan
>
> paulkakuma@yahoo.co.uk
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> +256 477 118 109 (Gemtel Sudan)
>
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>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Barry Sesnan <bsesnan@yahoo.com>
> To: Paul Mitchell <paulkakuma@yahoo.co.uk>; Timothy
> Brown <brownunhcr@yahoo.com>; yebu10884@yahoo.com
> Cc: Blog <bsesnan.barrysbook@blogger.com>; Robin
> Shawyer <robin@windle.org.uk>; David Masua
> <masuadavid@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Friday, 13 June, 2008 11:52:05 AM
> Subject: RE: SD Sudan Airways, RIP
>
>
> I will refrain from listing the 3 out of 6 Kenya airways
> (return) journeys I have done in the last year which have
> successively aborted takeoff, had a door which failed to
> close and ran into the mud. With the result of having two
> extra days in Nairobi (nice) being sent via Dubai to get to
> Abidjan (horrible 40 hours without hotel or anything) and a
> night in Douala (OK as a one off).
>
> And the plane which took off from Douala in the middle of
> raging thunderstorm, having been told not to take off and
> was found in tiny fragments deeply embedded in the mangrove
> swamp. Nor the fact that no one knew that that plane had
> crashed for six hours because they seemingly don't track
> planes. Only when it was more than usually late into
> Nairobi did anyone notice.
>
> No, I will not mention them.
>
> Barry.
>
> From:Paul Mitchell [mailto:paulkakuma@yahoo.co.uk]
> Sent: 12 June 2008 16:40
> To: Barry Sesnan; Timothy Brown; yebu10884@yahoo.com
> Cc: Blog; Robin Shawyer; David Masua
> Subject: Re: SD Sudan Airways, RIP
>
> Dear Barry
>
> I knew you couldn't resist. However according to the
> BBC story as broadcast, and as confirmed by the link below,
> it ddin't crash, but had landed safely and the engine
> fire began whilst the plane was on the ground. As well as
> the link, also look at the related link on Air disasters
> Timeline which makes interesting reading.
>
> I have flown several of the Sudan Airways planes from
> Juba-Nairobi and vv, always remembering what you said, and
> many are no worse than most, the A310 being a really good
> example of this model. Some Marsland planes creak rather
> more!
>
> Yesterday I discussed this with class of lecturers/TAs et
> al I am teaching at Juba University, and they agreed it was
> serious, but if you look at the graveyard of vehicles
> smashed on Juba's roads over the past 12 months I know
> which I feel safer in- and that is a Sudan Airways plane.
> However I would prefer KQ to fly Juba-Nbi than any of the
> planes on the route; East African Safari's planes which
> are advertised as the best are 43 years old, according to
> infor on a website I was looking at a coupl eof months ago!
> However normally I fly UNHAS, mainly Dash 8 and Caravans
> within SS and to Loki.(although I haven't had R&R
> since the beginning of March)
>
>
> * Dozens die in Sudan jet inferno *
> At least 28 people die and more than 50 are missing after a
> plane bursts into flames after landing in Sudan, officials
> say.
> Full story:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/africa/7447243.stm
>
>
> Paul
>
> Paul Mitchell, Regional English Language Advisor,
> Windle Trust International, Southern Sudan
>
> paulkakuma@yahoo.co.uk
> +254 720 449 277 (East Africa)
> +256 477 118 109 (Gemtel Sudan)
>
> Windle Trust International "Education: Development
> Through People"
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Barry Sesnan <bsesnan@yahoo.com>
> To: Timothy Brown <brownunhcr@yahoo.com>;
> yebu10884@yahoo.com
> Cc: Paul Mitchell <paulkakuma@yahoo.co.uk>; Blog
> <bsesnan.barrysbook@blogger.com>; Robin Shawyer
> <robin@windle.org.uk>; David Masua
> <masuadavid@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Thursday, 12 June, 2008 2:44:08 AM
> Subject: SD Sudan Airways, RIP
> SD I used to joke is Sudden Death. Once again a Sudan
> Airways plane crashes, and as usual it is not far from the
> airport.
> The number of crashes, (Port Sudan, one embedded in a
> building at the end of El Obeid runway, one in the Nile
> which the pilot seems to have thought was the runway (they
> do run in the same direction), plus the one the SPLA
> rocketed at Malakal) must make it have most dismal record
> of any airline. A few years ago they had no planes left.
> They don't even change the logo.
> Barry
>
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