I don't think too many people are aware of what happened on Sunday evening, but it was pretty cool. We were having a braai at the in-laws late afternoon, when we saw a plane overhead at quite a low altitude. As most of Gauteng knows, there was a pretty significant storm that brewed that evening, so it was not too strange that it was flying under the clouds. On a hunch I decided to check out what was happening on Flightradar, then saw that this plane has been flying circles all over Pretoria. I decided to have a look further and found that everyone trying to get into ORTIA or HLA were stuck in holding patterns. Went back to the first plane to see where it was in the sky as we heard it again, passed right by the house in Monument Park. Next thing we heard the sound of reverse thrust and thought, wait what? Turns out this plane had to land at AFB Waterkloof as it didn't have enough fuel to divert to Durban, so special permission was given for it to land. As you can see they tried to land from the south first, but had to bail out, and then came in from the north. I was insufferable for the rest of dinner.
