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Vandag vang ‘n storie op Sapa my oog waar ‘n vliegtuig op die Harare lughawe teen twee wildevarke gebots het. Dit is omtrent al wat in Zimbabwe oor is en dalk die ideale boerdery geleentheid vir Grace Mugabe. Dan kan sy diversifiseer van  melk. Met die ongeluk wat plaasgevind het kan jy egter gou die vark in die storie word soos die arme passiers met die eerste ongeluk moes uitvind. Maar dan is jy nou weer net in Zimbabwe.

ZIMBABWE-ACCIDENTS-AVIATION
HARARE December 15 Sapa-dpa
WILD PIGS STRIKE AGAIN AT HARARE AIRPORT
 
Wild pigs living around Harare’s international airport were
struck by a plane, a month after causing the crash of a
just-airborne aircraft there, reports said Tuesday.

Last week, a South African Airways aircraft hit two of the pigs,
Peter Chikumba, chief executive of Air Zimbabwe, the country’s
national carrier, was quoted as saying in the Harare Herald
newspaper.

The incident came after an Air Zimbabwe Chinese-made MA60 ran
into a wild pig on November 2, bringing the aircraft down, but
causing no loss of life.

Chikumba gave no further details of the latest incident, but
said national parks rangers were called in and captured 90 of the
pigs. Residents in the area say pigs are abundant on farms
surrounding the airport and easily burrow under the fences meant to
keep them out.

Pigs are not the only problem, Chikumba said. The amount of
birds at the airport is also posing a risk.

“We (Air Zimbabwe) had to abort a flight to Johannesburg after
they invaded the runway a fortnight ago. The pilot had to reduce
speed and institute emergency brakes,” Chikumba said.

He said the state-owned airline desperately needed cash to deal
with the invasions of birds and animals, but was still stricken by
the effects of the country’s economic collapse last year when
inflation hit 230 billion per cent and the currency collapsed into
a worthless 1 US dollar to 10 trillion Zimbabwe dollars.

The national economy has begun to recover since the inauguration
of the country’s coalition government in February, but Air Zimbabwe
received no money from the new administration’s budget last week.