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Date: | dimanche 3 septembre 1978 |
Heure: | 17:30 |
Type/Sous-type: | Vickers 782D Viscount |
Compagnie: | Air Rhodesia |
Immatriculation: | VP-WAS |
Numéro de série: | 297 |
Année de Fabrication: | 1958-03-04 (20 years 6 months) |
Moteurs: | 4 Rolls-Royce Dart 510 |
Equipage: | victimes: 4 / à bord: 4 |
Passagers: | victimes: 34 / à bord: 52 |
Total: | victimes: 38 / à bord: 56 |
Dégats de l'appareil: | Perte Totale |
Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Lieu de l'accident: | Whamira Hills ( Zimbabwe)
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Phase de vol: | En vol (ENR) |
Nature: | Transport de Passagers Nat. |
Aéroport de départ: | Kariba Airport (KAB/FVKB), Zimbabwe |
Aéroport de destination: | Salisbury Airport (HRE/FVHA), Zimbabwe |
Numéro de vol: | RH825 |
Détails:An Air Rhodesia Viscount, named "Hunyani", took off from Kariba Airport at 17:10. Shortly after departing Kariba, the starboard wing was hit by a 9K32 Strela-2 shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missile (also known as SA-7). An emergency descent was carried out and the crew tried to make an emergency landing in a large clearing in the bush. The aircraft crash-landed, striking an irrigation ditch, cart-wheeled, broke up and caught fire. Fighters from the Zimbabwe Peoples Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), also responsible for shooting down the airliner, later killed 10 of the 18 survivors. The rest of the survivors were rescued the next day.
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accident date:
03-09-1978type: Vickers 782D Viscount
registration: VP-WAS
Plan
Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposée destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Kariba Airport et Salisbury Airport est de 281 km (176 miles).
Accident location: Global; accuracy within tens or hundreds of kilometers.
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tel qu'ils sont connus à ce jour.