Tag: African Aviation History
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On This Day in 1999: A Grounded Air Botswana Pilot Stole an ATR 42 and Circled the Airport for Two Hours, Threatening to Crash Into His Employer’s Building. He Eventually Landed but Rammed Two Parked ATR 42s, Destroying All Three Aircraft and Killing Himself.
On October 11, 1999, a shocking incident at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport in Gaborone, Botswana, devastated the national airline’s fleet after a pilot deliberately crashed a stolen passenger aircraft into two parked airliners. The incident killed one person, the pilot himself, but left Air Botswana facing a major operational crisis. The aircraft was an…
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