PARLIAMENT yesterday heard that investigations into the cause of the two Zambia Air Force (ZAF) aircraft accidents in Livingstone and Lusaka have continued. The place accidents involved ZAF deputy commander, Major General Muliokela Muliokela with his co-pilot, Colonel Brian Mweene, who died when their SAAB MFI-15 crashed during a routine training exercise in Lusaka West in May this year. Three other ZAF pilots died in separate crashes, two in January this year after their FA 528 SAB aircraft crashed in Livingstone and another in March last year at the Lusaka City airport. This prompted the government to appoint a board of inquiry to investigate and ascertain the causes of the plane crashes. Defence deputy minister Joseph Lungu yesterday told Parliament that the board of inquiry constituted by Government to investigate the ZAF plane crashes had continued. Colonel Lungu was responding to a query by Lumezi MMD MP Isaac Banda who wanted to know whether investigations into the two accidents had been undertaken. The board of inquiry had been constituted but the proceedings of the board were yet to be concluded. He said once the investigations were completed, the findings and the recommendations would be handed over to the President, who was the Commander in Chief of the armed forces.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:29:22 +0000
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