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ZAF Chopper Crash Lands In Lusaka, One ZAF Officer Dies
A Zambia Air Force (ZAF) chopper has crash-landed at the city airport Longacres in Lusaka.
One ZAF officer who was rushed to the hospital has since died while the chopper has been burnt to ashes.
This is the third time a helicopter is crash-landing in Zambia within six months. The first one was carrying state house staff who accompanied president Sata on a tour of Northern province.
The second one was carrying PF journalists who were being ferried to cover campaigns in Mpongwe. it crash-landed in Kabwe but authorities angrily defended the crash-landing by saying it was not as bad as reported by the private media.
Posted by Editor
on March 12, 2013. Filed under HEADLINES, LATEST NEWS.
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4ma
March 12, 2013 at 4:53 pm
sad indeed
4ma
March 12, 2013 at 4:56 pm
everything happens by Gods will.
Ubufii ba 2mfweko
March 12, 2013 at 5:00 pm
Imwe ba Tumfweko Crash-landing and crashing are two different things in aviation lingua franca. Are you sure this was a crash-landing?
Zebige
March 12, 2013 at 5:05 pm
Shit happens bane.
Sir jeff
March 12, 2013 at 5:11 pm
Sad devElopment!Tink I saw dem choppers carrying zambian flags. Time to replace them. M.H.S.R.I.P
Amai tilikuseli
March 12, 2013 at 5:14 pm
Poor ZAF no preventertive maintenace to their Choppers and poor training to their pailots.Air commander to blame very sleepy ati so long nifola.
Mwinecho!
March 13, 2013 at 4:21 pm
lwee, thats a Z9 they recently bought from China. whats about maintenance now n poor training?
Rb
March 12, 2013 at 5:16 pm
The chopper crashed. If it had crash landed it wouldnt have burst into flames
ken
March 13, 2013 at 11:51 am
Lie
kajinta
March 12, 2013 at 6:52 pm
sad development…whatever happens for a reason
justine
March 12, 2013 at 10:09 pm
lack of safety in these Zambian government institutions guys we need to wake up and smell the coffee cos by the time we know it will be all died.lets have pre start check ups of our machine everyday before using them its important we do.
SEKOPONOKE
March 13, 2013 at 6:43 am
Ba ZAF….
MALOZA
March 13, 2013 at 7:53 am
THOSE CHOPPERS WERE THE SAME ONES INHERITED FROM UNIP DAYS. THEIR DECOMMISSIONING IS LONG OVERDUE. SEVERAL BUFFALO PLANES SIMILAR TO THE ONE THAT KILLED OUR NATIONAL TEAM HAD BEEN CRASHING BEFORE THE FATEFUL GABON DISASTER. IT SEEMS 20 YEARS DOWN THE LINE ZAF HAS NEVER LEARNT FROM THE GABOON DISASTER. THE REPORT SHOULD HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED AS IT WOULD HAVE EXPOSED ZAF’S CONTRIBUTION TO THAT CRASH AND PREVENTED THESE CHOPPER CRASHES & OTHER UNPUBLISHED CRASHES. GBM WAKE UP INSTEAD OF LOOKING FOR TENDERS
cash money
March 13, 2013 at 8:25 am
i have always feared for university of lusaka it is just too close to the city airport,everytime we are in class we always hear sounds of aeroplanes taking off and landing by these trainee pilots,i just hope one will never land on top of our school.we learn with alot of fear.
kufa
March 13, 2013 at 9:12 am
LET US LOOK AT VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE, THANK RUSHING TO CHANGE THE CURRENCY, NEVER HEARD OF MAJOR REPAIRS OF AIRCRAFTS, ONCE LIVED INmBAL AIR FORCE, TRAVELLED WITH A DC6 we left mbala somewhere mid 13 hours though i cant remember propery, we were two passenger and two pilots, when we reached lusaka, we could not land, and the pilots decided to go beyond the clouds, until somewhere maybe around 21 hours, luck of what i could not tell, but we were told there is a fault so we cant just land just now, luckly we survived, sorry for my brothers/brother, may his soul rest in peace.
we love u
kampamba mashabe
March 13, 2013 at 9:41 am
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR GETTING AIRCRAFT FROM CHINA,WHY NOT THE U.S.A OR EVEN RUSSIA,WATCH OUT FOR THOSE CHEAP FIGHTER JETS RECENTLY PURCHASED FROM CHINA YET AGAIN AM SURE THEY ARE EQUALLY UNRELIABLE THE LOSS OF ANY LIFE EVEN OF SOLDIERS IS REGRETALE
ken
March 13, 2013 at 11:55 am
It was a day for Helicopters. One crashed in Afganistan killing 5 and another in Isreal killing 2. These are accidents nothing about China or which ever source it depends more on improper operation, application and alot of other factors including Juju in the case of ZAF.
kuichaila
March 13, 2013 at 2:25 pm
just observe the fire machine on the accident scene, can you really dispute the fact that we are still using the UNIP era equipment. Its about time we looked into refurbishing military equipment and logistics other than just giving them free milie meal. PF is a listening government, am sure someone will look into the matter so long peaple talk.
sataula chalofya
March 13, 2013 at 2:47 pm
PF promised good before getting power. They are now busy pleasing non-performers even at our expense – SAD. Giving ill-qualified ZAF, ARMY, ZNS, POLICE, OP, ETC is no use when not facilitated. We shall vote you out next time. You are doing this even for the well qualified though you do not only facilitate but also pay a quarter of what you pay these gun toting criminals. Sorry dead and injured brothers
sataula chalofya
March 13, 2013 at 2:53 pm
LETS EITHER DECLARE A 100 DAYS NATIONAL MOARNING OR SCRAPE OFF THE GUN TOTTING ORGANISATIONS IN ZAMBIA (army, zaf, zns, op, police, etc)
PF may need a refferendum anyway.
Pompwesakalanyongo
March 13, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Fi Tumfweko fya bufi look at the picture in this story, that place is not even in Zambia nor is the damn helicopter Zambian Air Force.
stevenho
March 13, 2013 at 8:46 pm
Accidents do happen be its a drand new choppa or not
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nawaitwika
March 14, 2013 at 3:03 pm
@Ubufi batumfweko we ufishibe efyo niwe ifwe natumfwa and the most important of all is not language but the death of the gallant son of the soil who died on duty period.