By Garth Calitz South Africa has officially entered a new era of aviation accident investigation. The Civil Aviation Amendment Act 22 of 2021 is now in force, the Aviation Safety Investigation Board (ASIB) has been established in law, and the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) has helpfully clarified that aircraft accident investigations are no longer its problem to explain. There is just one small detail. Who, precisely, is investigating aviation accidents in Sou

By Garth Calitz The SACAA completed its review of Airlink’s controversial stadium flypast, handed its report to the airline and set a deadline for a response. That deadline has passed. So, has anything happened, or has the matter entered South Africa’s increasingly familiar administrative holding pattern? South Africa’s aviation industry has a reasonably straightforward expectation of its regulators' enforcement department: establish the facts, apply the regulations and commu