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November 29, 2007
When Your Flight Goes Mechanical, Just Commandeer Another Plane
Via Online Travel Review, Robert Mugabe commandeered an Air Zimbabwe plane to take him to Mozambique, causing the plane's passengers to have to wait six hours at the airport for their flight.No great surprise, that's how things work in that part of the world (and his wife has been known to take the national airline's planes on shopping trips), though I get annoyed at news stories referring to dictators as 'President' as though their governance entails some form of legitimacy.
Still, the one thing that's rather shocking is the non-chalant explanation for the whole affair:
- "Mugabe's plane probably developed problems. Most Air Zimbabwe planes are not working as there are not enough parts to repair them."
Posted by gleff at November 29, 2007 1:14 PM
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