Operation Vanity was a Rhodesian military operation in Angola with clandestine assistance from the South African Air Force ( SAAF ) during the Rhodesian Bush War . The Rhodesian Air Force planned a retaliatory raid against a ZIPRA camp in Angola after a second Air Rhodesia Viscount was shot down on 12 February 1979
Air Rhodesia Viscount was shot down
Air Rhodesia Flight 827
Operation Vanity