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List of African Plane Crashes
By The Associated Press
August 1, 2005, 3:51 PM EDT
Political leaders killed in aircraft crashes in Africa:
July 30, 2005: The Sudanese government announced Vice President John Garang,
a former rebel leader, died when the helicopter he was flying in crashed
into a mountain in southern Sudan in bad weather.
Jan. 24, 2003: Kenyan Labor Minister Ahmad Mohamed Khalif was killed when
his aircraft crashed after veering off the airstrip during takeoff. The
accident was blamed on human error and the poor condition of the runway.
April 16, 2001: Liberia's sports minister, Francois Massaquoi, was killed
when dissidents opened fire on his helicopter during a mission to deliver
humanitarian supplies to the northern town of Voinjama.
April 6, 1994: Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprian
Ntayamira of Burundi were killed when their plane was shot down near the
airport in Kigali, Rwanda's capital. Habyarimana's death opened the doors to
the Rwandan genocide in which more than 500,000 people were killed.
Oct. 19, 1986: President Samora Machel, leader of Mozambique since it
achieved independence from Portugal in 1975, was killed when his
Russian-made plane crashed a few hundred yards inside South Africa's border.
Russian experts concluded the pilots were following a decoy signal, but
South Africa's apartheid government denied using false navigation signals to
lure the plane off course.
Sept. 18, 1961: United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold died when
his plane crashed in Zambia while on a peace mission to the Congo. A Swedish
government report said pilot error was to blame, although two former U.N.
officials claimed gunfire from mercenaries caused the crash.
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Sources: Associated Press, United Nations.
Copyright 2005 Newsday Inc.
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