Coal powered flight lands okay

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Wednesday, 29 September 2010

South African petrochemical giant Sasol has participated in a claimed world record flight, flying the world's maiden commercial passenger flight powered solely by 100 per cent synthetic jet fuel made from coal.

The company has been working on the project for more than 15 years.

In 2008, Sasol says it became the first company in the world to be given the go-ahead by global aviation fuel specification authorities to use its 100 per cent synthetic jet fuel on commercial aircraft.

"The fuel, produced by Sasol's proprietary 'Coal to Liquids' process, is the world's only fully-synthetic jet fuel to have received international approval as a commercial aviation turbine fuel," Sasol said.