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Zimbabwe Air Force Helicopter Crashes In Masvingo

7 months agoMon, 16 Sep 2024 05:31:30 GMT

Zimbabwe Air Force Helicopter Crashes In Masvingo

An Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) helicopter crashed on Sunday afternoon shortly after takeoff from an airstrip in Masvingo, a senior government official has confirmed.

In a statement, Ndavaningi Mangwana, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, assured the public that “there were no casualties.”

He also said that the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) has initiated an investigation into the incident. Said Mangwana:

There was an aviation incident involving one of the Air Force of Zimbabwe helicopters that travelled to Masvingo today. Thankfully there were no casualties.
Civil aviation authorities are investigating and their findings will be shared with the nation when they become available.
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According to ZimLive, the AS-332 “Cougar” VIP helicopter was en route to pick up President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was attending an event organized by the youth league of his ZANU PF party, when it crashed. A source revealed:

The Air Force chopper was flying to Bikita to pick him (Mnangagwa) up. The skies were clear, but something catastrophic happened during takeoff.

This incident is not the first involving an AFZ helicopter in Masvingo Province. In 2018, an Alouette III helicopter carrying then Secretary for Defence and War Veterans Martin Rushwaya made a forced landing in Gutu due to a mechanical fault.

Fortunately, no injuries were reported, although the helicopter sustained damage to its wheels and propellers.

The 2018 incident occurred near Ranga School as the helicopter was returning to Harare from Gutu.

Rushwaya believed to be a relative of President Mnangagwa, currently serves as the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet.

The incident occurred just a month after a tragic plane crash in Masvingo that claimed the lives of five people—three Finns and two Zimbabweans.

The Cessna 182, which was en route to Victoria Falls from Buffalo Range Aerodrome in Chiredzi, crashed at Chamanjirenji Hills near the Tokwane-Ngundu area, close to Renco Mine.

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65 Comments

Officer#12 · 7 months ago

🤫🤫🤫🤫

nanotech · 7 months ago

_Zimbabwean Air Force Mi-8 Fleet:_ 1. Acquired: 1980s-1990s (exact dates unclear) 2. Number: 12-15 Mi-8T/Mi-8MT helicopters (reports vary) 3. Roles: Transport, cargo, medical evacuation, search and rescue _Service History:_ 1. Used during the Mozambican Civil War (1980s) 2. Participated in United Nations peacekeeping missions (1990s-2000s) 3. Involved in domestic operations, including humanitarian missions _Current Status:_ 1. Unclear; some reports suggest Zimbabwe's Mi-8 fleet is grounded or retired 2. Limited information available due to lack of transparency

Shanduko · 7 months ago

To the pilots and other soldiers out there. Chivhayo alone has looted enough money to repair and replace these birds. Enough money to pay you respectable salaries. Because your lives don't matter, you are easily sacrificed so that the dictator and chief thief and his clan can feast arrogantly and abundantly under your protection. You are your own worst enemies

Hombre · 7 months ago

So, with our blubber mouth leadership which provokes wars, is this the wreckage we hope to use against those we provoke, including our own citizens?

Kongaring Kongara · 7 months ago

I also need to know exactly what caused this chopper to fail to fly. This is not good at all if it is a mechanical failure,prevantative maintanance was not done properly. We can not have a situation like this,we can not really.

zig · 7 months ago

Dai yakauraya iri zi.munhu ratitambudza nescover muhuro

Hhhhxet · 7 months ago

This plan has failed the second can be implemented soon just count down days

biggie · 7 months ago

Kkkkk ko ndege dzeZim dzinodonhawo? ma1 chaiwo

🧐 · 7 months ago

Kuda mubereki wako ndokuti mazuva kurarama pa nyika awedzerwe Hlonipha umzali ukuze amahlanga akho semhlabeni engezelelwe The kind of comments against President are wayward, but hes the father to everyone of us in the region, as so all these demonising demeaning is done only by low swine characters

Anonymous · 7 months ago

Ndiyoka mishikashika yemaChopper yakabva kuna Putin..

Zim Citizen · 7 months ago

sometimes zim we must buy new planes we can afford to buy choppers but why we can not see this is too much

Joza · 7 months ago

If we buy new choppers, how do we justify crushing our enemies from the sky? How then can we talk of and blame sanctions?

pablo · 7 months ago

pakaipa

sorry 4 that · 7 months ago

so sorry to hear that there were no casualties, how disappointing ...

hoy · 7 months ago

hmm thank the lord hope mother nature is safe and the environment the other stuff may it perish hmmm . sad the ground got a few bruises

Chibaba · 7 months ago

99% of the comments shows that the majority of people does not want ED.

Tango · 7 months ago

ED knows people do not like him too! That's why he is so repressive and brutal.

🧐 · 7 months ago

It's no use competing comments with psychos, what has ED done wrong to be bloated with such silly comments,you may all hate him asi ka e ED hanaisi mvura, Zvakare svima comments svose against President isvu ndosve du. mb. u re nyope dzega dzega, El nino is getting SA home affairs so confused to kudzinganisa ma foreigners Kana arwadziwa ne kutonga Kwa ED, Limpopo haisisna mvura, tione ukagona ku mhanyisa a ne mapurisa nenyaya ye operations Gukurahundi yeko mazuvaano

Tango · 7 months ago

Are you for real dude? ED's gvt spending $1.7billion to resurface roads and built villas for 3 days sadc summit when there is drought and 9.8million people on the verge of starvation isn't that evil. He is like a father who spends his salary on alcohol when children have no food back home.

Sir African · 7 months ago

It was not a helicopter but a drone.

Anonymous · 7 months ago

Nyika yapotsa yasununguka

Anonymous · 7 months ago

Yapotaa yadonha nokuti pasina ED Zim inoparara ne 2 days. Shumba ndoZim yacho.

Black Mbazo · 7 months ago

shame sorry nzvimbo yakadonherwa nechindege icho

Big Dude · 7 months ago

They would have been much safer in our own Zim Copter. Some say that the chopper had been assigned to carry VP CDN Chiwenga.

Tango · 7 months ago

VP general didn't attend the munhumutapa day. He doesn't attend those functions for fear of being poisoned.

cde · 7 months ago

ahhhh shame mazimba mune munyama sure

Zeus mfana · 7 months ago

Hope no 1 perished

ClD Admire kuyeri · 7 months ago

kkkkkk ndongozi

dj TECH 🇿🇼 · 7 months ago

ngozi yaPresident Chingoma yatotanga !!

coni · 7 months ago

zvanga zvava padhuze kunaka ko yakadonherei mupengo uyo usati wapinda ndasvotwa kwazvo yaifanira kudonha garwe ririmo

🏃Chi baby Che 🌊 · 7 months ago

zvinotadza nei kudonha zvikopokopo zvakasiiwa na Smith sorry to the ground that was affected zvimwe izvo azvina basa

Pombi yadonha · 7 months ago

munoshandisirei zvinhu zvasmith munodiii kutenga zvenyu zvakasimba zvacho

goora · 7 months ago

ndoodzakabva kwPutitin idzi

Si**** · 7 months ago

Munamato wangu uri kupinduwra zvishoma nezvishoma

Vision 2030 · 7 months ago

2030 mudhara vanenge vachingotonga,,, vanenge vachingotonga 2030 Aluta Continua ✊✊✊✊✊

Pombi yadonha · 7 months ago

Ko vanzi havatonge naani, u are very confused changamire, zvapinda papi izvozvo

mainini · 7 months ago

Dai yakadonha rwurimo nxaaa

Aratijiesi · 7 months ago

Ndarwadziwa mufunge

Anonymous · 7 months ago

Wen you got 20000 human skulls bling bling as trophies you think people can feel messy for you I doubt

Tambaoga · 7 months ago

Nothing to investigate those choppers are unairworthy

wischigonero · 7 months ago

zvingatadze kudonha izvo zvima 6th hand zvavakatihwa necomoros

crow · 7 months ago

only good and kind people die bad cruel people live longer

pipilo · 7 months ago

wischigonero · 7 months ago

tsaona inoitika isingaurayi vanhu inobhowa dai yatakura uya uya

· 7 months ago

Drama ravari kutitiira , hapana nyaya apa kuda kuti vanhu tione zvekutaura Ivo vachidya hupfumi hwenyika nevana vavo.

dee~tales · 7 months ago

Air Force of Zimbabwe planes, the Zimbabwe presidium all of them, belong to museums.

Raster · 7 months ago

Dai afa munangarwa i****

??? · 7 months ago

kufamba ne road ma accident muchadenga ma accident which mode is safe now?

Palapala · 7 months ago

Thanks God nooone was hurt. I think these helicopters are too old. Many thanks to God, the President was not on board and not hurt. We need the president to rule beyond 2030, he doing good to civil servants

+263 · 7 months ago

why dai yagura misoro yevanhu vaviri Ed and Chiwenga

-_- · 7 months ago

Thank God no lives were lost. I just hope the cause of the crash is determined. Such incidents bring a bad rep to air travel in our country.