- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: March 01, 1988
Time: 1728
Location: Near Johannesburg, South Africa
Operator: Commercial Airways (Comair)
Flight #: 206
Route: Phalaborwa - Johannesburg
AC Type: Embraer 110P1 Bandeirante
Registration: ZS-LGP
cn / ln: 110-402
Aboard: 17   (passengers:15  crew:2)
Fatalities: 17   (passengers:15  crew:2)
Ground: 0
Summary: The aircraft crashed and burned 8 miles from Jan Smuts Airport while attemping to land. Detonation of a bomb consisting of nitro-glycerine and ammonium nitrate. A mineworker who heavily insured himself was thought to have committed suicide.
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