Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taipei, Taiwan
Stopover
Plaisance Airport, Plaine Magnien, Mauritius
Destination
Jan Smuts International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa
Occupants
159
Passengers
140
Crew
19
Fatalities
159[2]
Survivors
0
South African Airways Flight 295 (SA295/SAA295) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taipei, Taiwan, to Jan Smuts International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, with a stopover in Plaisance Airport, Plaine Magnien, Mauritius. On 28 November 1987, the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 747-200 Combi named Helderberg, experienced a catastrophic in-flight fire in the cargo area, broke up in mid-air, and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board.[3][4] An extensive salvage operation was mounted to try to recover the aircraft's flight recorders, one of which was recovered from a depth of 4,900 metres (16,100 ft).
The official inquiry, headed by Judge Cecil Margo, was unable to determine the cause of the fire. This lack of a conclusion led to conspiracy theories, debates and speculation about the nature of Flight 295's cargo, as well as a subsequent post-apartheid investigation and calls from relatives of those on the flight to re-open the investigation in the years following the accident.[5]
^"Final Report ZS-SAS.pdf" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
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^Marsh 1994, p. 14.
^Marsh 1994, p. 19.
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