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incidents.
- On 29 June 1969, an Affretair Douglas C-54 Skymaster (registered TR-LNV) crashed shortly after take-off from an airstrip in Uli, Nigeria.
- On 28 February 1982, a parked Affretair Canadair CL-44 (registered TR-LVO) was destroyed in a fire at Harare International Airport.
- On 28 January 1996, an Affretair Douglas DC-8 (registered Z-WSB) was damaged beyond repair when it overran the runway upon landing at Harare Airport following a cargo flight from Johannesburg.
Affretair
Affretair (National Cargo Airline of Zimbabwe) was a cargo airline based in Zimbabwe.
History.
Affretair was formed as a Gabon-based associate company of Air Trans Africa, when a Douglas DC-8 aircraft was acquired in the early 1970s for overseas freight operations. This was part of the Rhodesian "sanctions-busting" operations, where Rhodesian high-quality beef was flown by Douglas DC-7F to Gabon by Air Trans Africa, and then carried by Affretair to Europe.
In the 1980s Affretair operated two Douglas