Air disaster

1983 TAAG Angola Airlines 737 Boeing crash

8 Nov 1983 · 14.93° S, 13.57° E

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When
8 Nov 1983
Kind
Air disaster
Coordinates
14.93° S, 13.57° E
Description
1983 plane crash of a TAAG Boeing 737-200 after takeoff from Lubango Airport, Angola; disputably shot down by UNITA
Deaths
130
Injured
0
Participants
130

TAAG Flight 462

1983 aviation incident

TAAG Flight 462 was a TAAG Angola Airlines flight which crashed just after the Boeing 737-200 took off from Lubango Airport in Lubango, Angola, on a regular domestic service as Flight DT 462 to Quatro de Fevereiro Airport in Luanda on November 8, 1983. All 130 occupants onboard were killed.

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