Aircraft Photo of C9-CAA | Tupolev Tu-134AK | Mozambique Government | AirHistory.net #581034
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:C9-CAA
Aircraft Original Type:Tupolev Tu-134
Aircraft Generic Type:Tupolev Tu-134/135
Aircraft Version:Tupolev Tu-134AK
C/n (msn):63457
Operator Titles:Mozambique Government
Location
City / Airport:Harare - Robert Gabriel Mugabe International / ManyameMap
Country:Zimbabwe
Airport Codes:ICAO: FVHA   IATA: HRE   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:October 1993
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID: 581034
Photo Comment

This was the personal plane of Mozambican president Samora Machel. On a flight from Mbala in Zambia to Mozambique's capital, Maputo, on 19 October 1986 the aircraft crashed at Mbuzini, in the (then) Transvaal on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. There is a certain level of controversy connected with this event, ranging from pilot error to false VOR signals. The official report concluded that it was a controlled flight into terrain.

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