Police in South
Africa have launched a fresh investigation into the plane crash in 1986 that
killed the Mozambican president Samora Machel and 33 other people, including government
ministers and officials. The
Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-134, taking them home from an international meeting in Lusaka,
came down in a mountainous area of South Africa.
The following year, a South African judge, assisted by experts from the
USA and the UK, said the cause was negligence on the part of the crew, but Russian
experts working with the Mozambican authorities claimed the pilot was lured to disaster by a
decoy navigation beacon.
Now there are reports that investigators have found detailed new
evidence, including a sworn statement from a military intelligence agent of the
apartheid era, plus documents, photographs and voice recordings.
The South African apartheid regime carried out a series of military
strikes in Mozambique and other Africa states in the 1980’s.
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