Preliminary investigations have discovered a fatigue crack in the aft engine mount of the Nationwide Airlines Boeing 737-200 which shed its right-hand powerplant on take-off last month.

The finding follows the South African civil aviation authority’s 29 November decision to ground the carrier pending airworthiness and maintenance checks. The airline has had to cancel more than 90 flights across its network.

Nationwide says that a preliminary examination from the metallurgical department of the University of Pretoria has found a “recent fatigue crack” which led to the failure of the aft primary engine mount on a 737 departing Cape Town on

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