Incidents and Accidents
- Vickers Viscount, Flight RH825, 3 September 1978 - shot down by a Strela missile near Kariba Dam by ZIPRA terrorists. 18 of the 56 passengers survived the crash, but ten of them were brutally hacked to death on the ground by a group of ZIPRA terrorists,.
- Vickers Viscount, Flight RH827, 12 February 1979 - also shot down by a Strela missile near Kariba Dam by ZIPRA terrorists; all 59 people on board died.
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