| Date: | Saturday 13 March 1976 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Fokker F-27 Friendship 600 |
| Owner/operator: | Air Zaire |
| Registration: | 9Q-CLO |
| MSN: | 10395 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1969 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 10422 hours |
| Cycles: | 8930 flights |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Gago Coutinho -
 Angola
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - |
A flight of four Cuban Air Force MiG-21MF planes was attacking the UNITA aerodrome at Gago Coutinho. The F-27 was struck by an S-24 unguided rocket, fired by one of the planes.
Sources:
LAAHS
Willem Wendt
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Brussel-Zaventem Airport (BRU); November 1971
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