Air Rhodesia Flight 825

When

3 Sep 1978

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

16.78° S, 29.08° E

Description

Passenger aircraft shot down in 1978

Deaths

48

Participants

56

Passenger aircraft which was shot down in 1978

Air Rhodesia Flight 825 was a scheduled passenger flight that was shot down by the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) on 3 September 1978, during the Rhodesian Bush War. The aircraft involved, a Vickers Viscount named the Hunyani, was flying the last leg of Air Rhodesia's regular scheduled service from Victoria Falls to the capital Salisbury, via the resort town of Kariba.

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