Accident (?) at Harare

Maybe then the ‘drill’ should avoid alerting the media with aircraft types

[QUOTE=rdc1000;1621050]Only the long haul ops of Air Zimbabwe to London (!) and Kuala Lumpur/Beijing. Whoops 😮

Maybe then the ‘drill’ should avoid alerting the media and certainly avoid stating aircraft models or types especially if they have scheduled flights in and out of Harare of those same models or types.

Hopefully there are no scheduled 767 flights in or out of Harare routinely.

Only the long haul ops of Air Zimbabwe to London (!) and Kuala Lumpur/Beijing. Whoops 😮

coming to Zimbabwe, does Air Zimbabwe still have an active fleet?

Yes, they still have 5 aircraft in active service, 2×767-200ERs and 3×737-200s.

clearly no one was expecting that IL 96 order to be effective?:confused:

coming to Zimbabwe, does Air Zimbabwe still have an active fleet?

And what has become of the order for the IL96?

coming to Zimbabwe, does Air Zimbabwe still have an active fleet?

? how the media react – possibly controversial angle though

“Telling the media was part of the exercise. We wanted to see how the media would react”
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David Chawota

Civil Aviation Authority head” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10879353

Testing media reaction – interesting but possibly controversial angle had any actually gone to print.

Hopefully there are no scheduled 767 flights in or out of Harare routinely, as if the media had foolishly published a vague early “hot off the press report” then it could have possibly caused some people in parts of the world some anguish in case anyone they knew were due in to Harare from London that same day. Had this gone to print many relatives wouldn’t know if the person/s they were concerned about were on a 767 or another model aircraft so in my personal opinion it is a little like playing with fire to include giving media ‘bogus’ messages during purely a ‘drill’.

UPDATE 2-Zimbabwe plane alert was exercise–official

http://www.reuters.com/article/industrialsSector/idUSLDE6740XE20100805

Don’t jump the gun, wait for the Sun! :diablo:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3083093/Brit-plane-crash-in-Zimbabwe.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News

seems like it was just a “drill”.