Air Rhodesia Flight 827

59Fatalities

0Survivors

59On board

Accident details

Date: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Location: Xxxxxxx
Country: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Operator: XX-XXXX
Aircraft: Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxx
Registration: Xxxxxxxxx
From: 000
Stopover: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
To: Xxxxxxx
Passengers: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Crew: XX-XXXX
Summary: Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxx

What happened

A Vickers Viscount on a flight between Kariba and Salisbury, is shot down by Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army militants using a SA-7 (Strela 2) surface-to-air missile shortly after takeoff in similar circumstances to Flight 825 five months earlier; all 55 passengers and four crew are killed.

Other Air Rhodesia accidents

Air Rhodesia Flight 825 · 1978

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