Air Rhodesia Flight 827
 Umniati |
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| Occurrence summary | |
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| Date | 12 February 1979 |
| Type | Civilian airliner shoot-down |
| Site | Vuti African Purchase Area 16°25′S 29°26′E / 16.417°S 29.433°ECoordinates: 16°25′S 29°26′E / 16.417°S 29.433°E |
| Passengers | 55 |
| Crew | 4 |
| Fatalities | 59 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft type | Vickers Viscount |
| Operator | Air Rhodesia |
| Tail number | VP-YND |
| Flight origin | Salisbury |
| Last stopover | Kariba |
| Destination | Salisbury |
Air Rhodesia Flight 827, the Umniati, was a scheduled flight RH827 between Kariba and Salisbury that was shot down on 12 February 1979 by ZIPRA terrorists using a Strela 2 missile soon after take-off. The circumstances were very similar to that of Air Rhodesia Flight 825 five months earlier.
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[edit] Incident description
The flight's departure from Kariba had been delayed, so it had not climbed over the lake to get above the ceiling of shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles before heading for Salisbury.[1] The aircraft was damaged by a Strela 2 missile and came down in rough terrain in the Vuti African Purchase Area east of Lake Kariba.[2] None of the 59 passengers or crew survived.[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] Countermeasures
Following the second incident, Air Rhodesia modified the exhaust pipes of the Viscount aircraft to reduce their heat signature, and painted the aircraft with a low-radiation paint.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b P. J. H. Petter-Bowyer (2003). Winds of Destruction. Trafford Publishing. ISBN 1-4120-1204-X. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J9aDWeGoFKEC.
- ^ Geoffrey Nyarota (2006). Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman. Zebra. http://books.google.com/books?id=B2Jp-k0WVWAC. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
- ^ "Description of Air Rhodesia Flight RH827". Aviation-Safety.net. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19790212-1. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
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