Air Rhodesia Flight 827

Air Rhodesia Flight 827
	An identical Vickers Viscount from Air Rhodesia
Accident summary
Accident type	Launch
place	near Kariba
date	February 12, 1979
Fatalities	59
Survivors	0
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Vickers Viscount 748D
operator	Air Rhodesia
Mark	VP-YND
Surname	Umniati
Departure airport	Kariba Airport
Destination airport	Salisbury Airport
Passengers	54
crew	5
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On February 12, 1979, a Vickers Viscount crashed on Air Rhodesia Flight 827 after the aircraft was hit by a surface-to-air missile .

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Shortly after take-off from Kariba Airport , an anti-aircraft missile from the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) hit the Air Rhodesia machine on the inner left engine (engine 2). The ZIPRA was the military arm of the Zimbabwe African People's Union . The plane caught fire and crashed uncontrollably. All 59 inmates were killed. It is the worst aviation accident in Zimbabwe to date .

Only five months earlier, ZIPRA had shot down another Vickers Viscount from the company. This carried out the Air Rhodesia flight 825 .