Preserving aviation history
Photo credit: Courtesy of 'Kempton Express' newspaper (Wednesday, 7th October 2020)
Amy Schoeman is one of the first Asian South African Airways (SAA) crew members working during Apartheid. Following retirement in 1993, she volunteers at the South African Airways Museum Society, a non-profit organisation run by former SAA employees and aircraft enthusiasts committed to collecting and preserving the history of the civil aviation in South Africa for future generations.
Read how the retired hostess details the horrific tragedy of SAA Flight 295 Helderburg of 1987.
Article credit: Courtesy of 'Germiston City News' (Friday, 9th October 2020) p. 1 & 3/8
Watch Amy share a tour of collected airline memorabilia and artefacts (including photographs, aircraft instruments, timetables, boarding passes, newspaper clippings, air show programmes and more) on display at the SAA Museum,
Video credit: Courtesy of 'YouTube / BedfordEdenvaleNEWS/JoburgEastEXPRESS' (Monday, 28th September 2020)
She also demonstrates how female flight attendants would measure their skirts.
Photo credit: Courtesy of 'Kempton Express' newspaper (Wednesday, 7th October 2020)
Show your support by visiting or volunteering at the SAA Museum based at the Rand Airport in Germiston open to the public during lockdown level 2.
