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1988 aviation accident

Comair Flight 206
Accident
An Embraer 110, similar to the incident aircraft
Date	1 March 1988 (1988-03-01)
Summary	In-flight breakup due to suicide bombing
Site	Germiston, near Johannesburg International Airport 26°13′S 28°11′E / 26.217°S 28.183°E / -26.217; 28.183
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante
Operator	Comair (South Africa)
Registration	ZS-LGP
Flight origin	Phalaborwa Airport, South Africa
Destination	Johannesburg International Airport, South Africa
Occupants	17
Passengers	15
Crew	2
Fatalities	17
Survivors	0

On Tuesday 1 March 1988, Comair Flight 206, an Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante flying from Phalaborwa to Johannesburg was approaching Johannesburg International Airport to land when it broke up in flight over Germiston. Reports indicated an explosive device on board; the cockpit was found a quarter of a kilometer away from the rest of the fuselage, despite the flight having been relatively low at the time of the accident. A miner on board had taken out a large life insurance policy shortly before the flight. There were no survivors.

Comair continued to use the flight code on a different route between Durban and Johannesburg up until their financial collapse in 2022.

References

Van Dyke, L (2009). FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BOLD: AN AFRICAN AVIATION ODYSSEY. Xlibris Corporation. p. 256. ISBN 978-1462813902.
^ ASN Aircraft accident Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante ZS-LGP Germiston, c. 13 km SW of Johannesburg International Airport (JNB') (Report). Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
CRASH OF AN EMBRAER EMB-110P1 BANDEIRANTE NEAR JOHANNESBURG: 17 KILLED (Report). Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.

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1987 ◄ ► 1989

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1988 (1988)

Jan 2 Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782Jan 18 Aeroflot Flight 699Jan 18 China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146Jan 19 Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286Jan 24 Aeroflot Flight 29674Feb 3 American Airlines Flight 132Feb 8 Nürnberger Flugdienst Flight 108Feb 19 AVAir Flight 3378Feb 27 Talia Airways Boeing 727 crashMar 1 Comair Flight 206Mar 4 TAT Flight 230Mar 8 Aeroflot Flight 3739Mar 17 Avianca Flight 410Apr 5 Kuwait Airways Flight 422Apr 28 Aloha Airlines Flight 243May 6 Widerøe Flight 710May 24 TACA Flight 110Jun 12 Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046Jun 23 British Army Lynx shootdownJun 26 Air France Flight 296QJul 3 Iran Air Flight 655Jul 13 BIH Sikorsky S-61N crashAug 17 Death of Muhammad Zia-ul-HaqAug 28 Ramstein air show disasterAug 31 CAAC Flight 301Aug 31 Delta Air Lines Flight 1141Sep 9 Vietnam Airlines Flight 831Sep 15 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 604Oct 17 Uganda Airlines Flight 775Oct 19 Indian Airlines Flight 113Nov 2 LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703Dec 8 Remscheid A-10 crashDec 11 Soviet Air Force Il-76 crashDec 21 Pan Am Flight 103

1987 ◄ ► 1989

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in South Africa
20th century	South African Airways Flight 406 (March 1967) South African Air Force Hawker-Siddeley HS125 crash (May 1971) Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 crash (October 1986) South African Airways Flight 295 (November 1987) Comair Flight 206 (March 1988)
21st century	Nationwide Airlines Flight 723 (November 2007) South African Airlink Flight 8911 (September 2009) Piaggio Albatross crash (August 2011) South African Air Force C-47 crash (December 2012) Pretoria Convair 340 crash (July 2018)

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