The shooting down on 3 September 1978 of the civilian Vickers Viscount airliner '' Hunyani '' , Air Rhodesia Flight RH825 , in the Kariba area by ZIPRA fighters using a surface-to-air missile , with the subsequent massacre of its survivors , is widely considered to be the event that finally destroyed the Rhodesians ' will to continue the war . Although militarily insignificant , the loss of this aircraft ( and a second Viscount , the '' Umniati '' , in 1979 ) demonstrated the reach of resistance movements extended to Rhodesian civil society
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Air Rhodesia Flight 827
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