Air Rhodesia Flight RH827

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Air Rhodesia Flight RH827

Umniati
Summary
Date	February 12, 1979
Type	Civilian airliner shoot-down
Site	Vuti African Purchase Area 16°25′S 29°26′E / -16.417, 29.433Coordinates: 16°25′S 29°26′E / -16.417, 29.433
Passengers	55
Crew	4
Fatalities	59
Survivors	0
Aircraft type	Vickers Viscount
Operator	Air Rhodesia
Flight origin	Salisbury
Last stopover	Kariba
Destination	Salisbury

Air Rhodesia Flight RH827, Umniati, was scheduled flight between Kariba and Salisbury that was shot down on 12 February 1979 by ZIPRA guerrillas using a Strela 2 missile in similar circumstances to Flight RH825 five months earlier. The plane came down in the Vuti African Purchase Area east of Lake Kariba.^[1] None of the 59 passengers or crew survived.^[2]

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