S. Africa Jet Springs Fuel Leak, Lands Safely
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From Reuters
JOHANNESBURG — A South African Airways Boeing 737 jet bound for Cape Town had to turn back to Johannesburg’s Jan Smuts Aiport last week after passengers spotted fuel gushing from a wing, the airline said on Friday.
South African Airways spokeswoman Aletta van Jaarsveld said that after the plane had landed safely, technicians found that a seal on a fuel tank cap had broken.
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