The South African police have initiated an investigation
into the circumstances surrounding the 1986 plane crash that killed Mozambican
leader Samora Michel after an informant came forward to claim that South
African apartheid-era officials engineered the crash. President Zuma has
personally sanctioned the investigation after strong evidence, including
documents, photographs and voice recordings, pointed to foul play. The original
diagnosis from a South African judge, assisted by UK and US “experts”, was that
the plane’s crew were partly responsible through negligence. However, Soviet
experts working with the Mozambican authorities ruled that the crash was caused
by the crew being misled by signals from a decoy navigation beacon that
transmitted more strongly than the beacon at the airport in Mozambique's
capital, Maputo…
Original link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20694109
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