Non hull-loss description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 07 AUG 1988 |
| Type: | British Aerospace BAe-125-800A |
| Operator: | Botswana Government |
| Registration: | OK-1 |
| C/n / msn: | 258112 |
| First flight: | 1988 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 10 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Airplane fate: | Repaired |
| Location: | near Cutio Bie (Angola) |
| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Luanda-4 de Fevereiro Airport (LAD/FNLU), Angola |
A BAe-125 owned by the Botswana Government was carrying the President of Botswana, J.K. Quett Masire, and his staff to a meeting in Luanda. An Angolan MiG-23 Flogger pilot fired two R-60 (AA-8 Aphid) missiles at the plane. One missile hit the no. 2 engine, causing it to fall off the aircraft. The second missile then hit the falling engine. The captain of the business jet was incapacitated when the cabin steward was blown forward, onto him. The co-pilot made a succesful emergency landing on a bush strip at Cutio Bie.
Sources:
» Aircraft Downed During the Cold War and Thereafter / David Lednicer
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
