Dropped coffin leads to flight delays at OR Tambo Airport
The flight had to be decontaminated following a leakage
NUMEROUS flights were delayed at OR Tambo Airport on Monday morning after a coffin carrying a human body was dropped, resulting in a leakage.
At about 11.30am, the late Nelson Mandela’s former right hand woman, Zelda la Grange, sent out a tweet that flights had been delayed at the international airport because a coffin containing human remains was dropped.
The coffin, which was coming from Lusaka in Zambia, was dropped while being offloaded.
Flights delayed on ORT because someone dropped a coffin being offloaded from Lusaka which contained human remains. NEE MAN!!!! ☹️🙊
— Zelda la Grange ©™✌ (@ZeldalaGrangeSA) November 28, 2016
According to her this resulted in a leakage and the entire aircraft had to be decontaminated.
La Grange also tweeted an email sent by South African Airways (SAA) informing passengers that the flight would be delayed until 5pm.Ok LEAKAGE from coffin. The entire aircraft has to be decontaminated. Says the captain. SO gross. Nevermind the delay. ☹️🙈 #ORT @flysaa
— Zelda la Grange ©™✌ (@ZeldalaGrangeSA) November 28, 2016
SAA apologised for the inconvenience.
Cool. @flysaa #HumanremainsfellfromcoffinatORT pic.twitter.com/OpOecKuyEv
— Zelda la Grange ©™✌ (@ZeldalaGrangeSA) November 28, 2016
La Grange, who is also a motivational speaker, later in the afternoon thanked SAA for keeping passengers updated and joked about being invited to the company’s “year-end braai”.
Credit where it's due @flysaa keeping us updated.Thank you. (I'm waiting for the year end Braai invite as I'm more with you than anyone else
— Zelda la Grange ©™✌ (@ZeldalaGrangeSA) November 28, 2016
