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The Zambia Air Force (ZAF) is the air force of Zambia and the air operations element of the Zambian Defence Force. Following the creation of the Republic of Zambia in 1964, the former Northern Rhodesia Air Force was renamed as the Zambia Air Force. The primary missions of the Air Force are to defend Zambia's borders and protect its airspace. In ...
Both air force pilots were killed and the third crewman, a navy liaison officer was injured. [114] 4 January An Republic of Korea Air Force F-35A jet fighter made an emergency "belly landing" at an air base after its landing gear malfunctioned due to electronic issues. Pilot did not eject and walked away from the accident. [115] 11 January
On the evening of 27 April 1993, a DHC-5 Buffalo transport aircraft of the Zambian Air Force crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Libreville, Gabon. The flight was carrying most of the Zambia national football team to a 1994 FIFA World Cup Qualifier against Senegal in Dakar. All 25 passengers and five crew members were ...
Malawi announces state funeral and 21 days of mourning for vice president killed in a plane crash. ... The remains of the victims were brought back to Lilongwe on a Zambian Air Force helicopter on ...
Recovering the bodies of two men killed earlier this month in a plane crash in a ravine cannot be performed safely, officials at Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve said. “If and when ...
The Zambia Air Force is a small air force that developed from the Northern Rhodesian Air Wing as well as the former Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Air Force. In recent years the aircraft inventory has largely been updated with Chinese aircraft reflecting the increasing closeness between the Zambian Defence Force and China.
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — The body of a 23-year-old Zambian student who died while fighting for the Russian army in The post Body of Zambian killed in the Ukraine war is returned home appeared first ...
Soviet Air Force: Lisunov Li-2: Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union: 19: 13: Almost the entire team was killed in a crash during a fifth attempt to land at Koltsovo Airport at Sverdlovsk (modern-day Yekaterinburg) in extremely adverse weather conditions involving a heavy snowstorm with strong winds. (Some sources give the crash date as 5 January.)