Viscount, Flight RH825, 3 September 1978 – shot down by a Strela missile near Kariba Dam by Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) terrorists. 18 of the 56 passengers survived the crash, but ten of them were brutally hacked to death on the ground by a group of ZIPRA terrorists. Vickers Viscount, Flight RH827, 12 February 1979 – also shot down by a Strela missile near Kariba Dam by ZIPRA terrorists; all 59 people on board died. References Peter Bridger et al., Encyclopaedia Rhodesia (College Press Pvt Ltd, Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1973), p. 20 Airlines of Rhodesia Defunct airlines of Zimbabwe Airlines established in 1967 1967 establishments in Rhodesia