Kulula passengers in shock after plane plummet

By Yamkela Xhaso
17 August


Passengers were in great shock when passengers sat in silence breathing through oxygen masks while their aircraft plummeted on a Kulula flight last week.

One of the passengers Candice Harrison-Train, who was flying from George to Johannesburg on Wednesday morning told reporters that after a 30 minute take off they were told that they must prepare for an emergency landing.

The aircraft is said to have dropped in altitude for two minutes.

Glenda Zvenyika, communications manager at Kulula airlines told reports that there had been a de-pressurisation problem when the aircraft, a Boeing 737-400 with 142 passengers, reached cruising altitude.

The captain then followed operating measures and the plane had to be flown back to George.