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OPERATOR AND OWNER

AIRCRAFT NATIONALITY REGISTRATION

On November 27th 1987 at 14:23, flight SA 295, a Boeing 747-244B Combi of South African Airways, departed from Taipei's Chiang Kai Shek Airport for Mauritius' Plaisance Airport with 159 persons on board. In the main deck cargo hold 6 pallets of cargo had been loaded. Some 9 hours out and some 46 minutes before the estimated time of arrival at Plaisance the flight deck informed