South Africa's civil aviation authority is reviewing a low-altitude flyover by two Airlink passenger jets before a rugby match at Cape Town's DHL Stadium after it drew safety concerns. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.

According to a statement on Wednesday, the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) said it had obtained flight data recordings and requested additional information from regional carrier Airlink as part of its assessment. A full report with recommendations will be issued once the review is complete.

"It is therefore critical that we interrogate this past weekend's events … to determine if there were any safety concerns which warrant a review," the agency said in a statement.

Airlink has withdrawn plans for another flyover at the upcoming rugby match in Soweto, according to the SACAA.

The flyover ahead of the Springboks-All Blacks rugby match on Aug. 29 drew huge cheers from an estimated crowd of about 56,000, but also sparked a debate over the safety risks after video footage by spectators inside and around the stadium spread online.

Deandra Peters, 25, a pilot and aviation enthusiast attending her first live rugby match, said the crowd in the stadium was electrified by the spectacle in a way that was difficult to capture on video.

"You can watch the planes fly over, but you can't recreate what it felt like to be inside a stadium full of Springbok supporters absolutely losing their minds," she told The Associated Press. "The atmosphere was electric — the noise, the pride, the emotion. It was a very uniquely South African moment."

Airlink on Wednesday said the maneuver had been carefully planned and rehearsed and that safety was "the first consideration at every stage of the process." It said each aircraft had three senior captains aboard, with more than 75,000 combined flight hours across the crews.

Earlier this week, Airlink had provided the data from the airplanes' black boxes to the civil aviation authority for review.

The SACAA said it would examine flight data to determine whether any safety concerns warranted a review.

The airline acknowledged the enthusiasm generated by the spectacle while also recognizing what it described as the "valid questions and concerns" that followed.

"We never intended to become the news or upstage Rugby's Greatest Rivalry," Airlink chief executive de Villiers Engelbrecht said in a statement.

The regulator said the airline had made applications for three flyovers. The most recent one was before the match in Cape Town.