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Wednesday, 7th October 2009 by RobK
If you’re a nervous flier, you’d do well to avoid Luzamba airport in northern Angola1. It’s not so much that lots of aircraft crash here (although it seems it’s hardly a rare occurence) — more the fact that the wrecked planes are simply left scattered around the place. There are at least four: first up, at the northern end of the runway, an Air Angola Antonov An-26 which overshot the…
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