Viscount Down
Publisher: Keith Nell / Msasa Enterprises
DVD – 48 mins - Dolby 2.1 Stereo – PAL Format
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Viscount Down
Sunday, September 3rd 1978, at 17.05hrs local time, Air Rhodesia Viscount VP-WAS rose smoothly from Kariba airport on a scheduled flight to the capital, Salisbury. Visibility was good as flight RH 825 climbed at 160 knots to its cruising altitude of 15,000ft on a heading of 160 degrees. On board were 52 passengers and 4 crew.
Little did they know that they had less than 5 minutes to live...
A group of terrorists serving Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) had positioned a SAM 7 missile in the remote and desolate Urungwe Tribal Trust Area directly in line with the flight path of the unsuspecting aircraft.
Of the 56 people on board 'Viscount Hunyani', 18 would miraculously survive the steep forced landing and first stage of the unspeakable holocaust yet to come. Only 8 people would finally live to tell the full story of unsurpassed, incomprehensible slaughter that was soon to unfold at the scene of the crash.
Keith Nell, the author of the book 'Viscount Down' gives an emotional account of the development of the book and the global support he received to create the unique record of events surrounding this history.
This DVD includes the Memorial Rolls of all those who lost their lives in both the Viscount 'Hunyani' and 'Umniati' disasters.
