List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft 1960 – 1989
February 12 – Air Rhodesia Flight 827, a Vickers Viscount on a flight between Kariba and Salisbury, is shot down by Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army militants using a SA-7 (Strela 2) surface-to-air missile shortly after take off in similar circumstances to Flight 825 five month earlier; all 55 passengers and 4 crew are killed.