{"id":436532,"date":"2026-05-24T04:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/south-african-airways-a320-diverts-twice-420kg-fuel\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T04:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:02:36","slug":"critical-south-african-a320-diverts-twice-before-landing-with-just-420kg-of-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=436532","title":{"rendered":"Critical: South African A320 Diverts Twice Before Landing With Just 420kg Of Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, a <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256274\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/south-african-airways\/\"  >South African Airways<\/a><\/span> domestic flight was forced to divert away from its destination of Cape Town due to severe weather. This flight had limited fuel onboard, and its <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/flight-diversion-most-common-reasons\/\" >diversion to George<\/a> was planned to have enough fuel, when weather conditions also affected the diversion airport, the Airbus A320 was then diverted again to Port Elizabeth, where, by the time the plane landed, just a total of 420kg (925 pounds) of fuel was left in its tanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 75 minutes of fuel left, the crew decided to divert to George, but as the plane approached, severe storm conditions forced another diversion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[429,396,17539,537,7741,577,2892],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a320","category-aircraft","category-cape-town-international-airport","category-diversion","category-fuel-shortages","category-johannesburg-airport","category-south-african-airways"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436533,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436532\/revisions\/436533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}