Air Rhodesia Flight 825
| Air Rhodesia Flight 825 | |
|---|---|
 An identical Vickers Viscount from Air Rhodesia |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Launch |
| place | Whamira Hills , Zimbabwe |
| date | 3rd September 1978 |
| Fatalities | 48 (38 when falling, 10 when attacking) |
| Survivors | 8th |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Vickers Viscount 782D |
| operator | Air Rhodesia |
| Mark | VP-WHAT |
| Surname | Hunyani |
| Departure airport | Victoria Falls Airport |
| Stopover | Kariba Airport |
| Destination airport | Salisbury Airport |
| Passengers | 52 |
| crew | 4th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On September 3, 1978, a Vickers Viscount was hit by a surface-to-air missile on Air Rhodesia flight 825 and crashed during the subsequent external landing .
course
Air Rhodesia's Vickers Viscount ran a scheduled flight from Victoria Falls via Kariba to Salisbury . After the stopover, the plane took off from Kariba Airport at 5:10 p.m. local time . Shortly after takeoff, a 9K32 Strela-2 missile fired by the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) hit the right wing of the aircraft. The ZIPRA was the military arm of the Zimbabwe African People's Union . The pilots initiated an emergency descent and decided to land on the outside . At around 5:30 p.m. the plane touched down in the savannah . During the crash landing, the machine peeped into a ring , broke apart and caught fire. Of the 56 inmates, 18 initially survived the incident. ZIPRA fighters attacked the survivors with automatic weapons, killing ten people. Five occupants of the machine, who had left the scene of the accident to get water and help, as well as three people who were able to hide during the attack, survived the attack and were rescued the next day.
This incident is, after the shooting down of another Vickers Viscount on Air Rhodesia flight 827 , the second worst accident in Zimbabwe to date .
consequences
As a result, the Rhodesian Army carried out Operation Gatling , an attack on ZIPRA fighters in neighboring Zambia . The army violating the territory of the Zambian state informed the Zambian government that it would not act against the state of Zambia, only against terrorists. According to Rhodesian data, over 1,500 ZIPRA fighters and some Cuban military advisers were killed in the operation, and according to historians Paul Moorcraft and Peter McLaughlin , several hundred unarmed civilians were murdered.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ accident report Vickers Viscount 782d VP-WAS , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 12 2020th
- ↑ The Hunyani Disaster
- ^ Paul L. Moorcraft, Peter McLaughlin: The Rhodesian War: A Military History. Pen and Sword Books, Barnsley 2008, ISBN 978-1-84415-694-8 , p. 155.