- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | March 01, 1988 |
Time: | 1728 |
Location: | Near Johannesburg, South Africa |
Operator: | Commercial Airways (Comair) |
Flight #: | 206 |
Route: | Phalaborwa - Johannesburg |
AC Type: | Embraer 110P1 Bandeirante |
Registration: | ZS-LGP |
cn / ln: | 110-402 |
Aboard: | 17 (passengers:15 crew:2) |
Fatalities: | 17 (passengers:15 crew:2) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The aircraft crashed and burned 8 miles from Jan Smuts Airport while attemping to land. Detonation of a bomb consisting of nitro-glycerine and ammonium nitrate. A mineworker who heavily insured himself was thought to have committed suicide. |
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