Air Botswana leaves passengers stranded
Friday, November 28, 2014
The social media was awash with posts of passengers complaining that they were stranded in Maun and Kasane. In an interview with Mmegi, the Airline Commercial Director, Joe Motse confirmed that on Wednesday one of their aircraft in Gaborone experienced technical glitches that it had to be delayed.
Motse explained that the aircraft was to take off at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport (SSKIA) and was destined for Maun when they realised that its bad weather detection was not working. “Initially the aircraft was delayed due to the problem but after it was fixed the flight had to be cancelled because rain started pouring and the weather was so bad that we had to cancel it,” he said.
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