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Panic as Mugabe’s plane billows smoke
HARARE- An Air Zimbabwe flight crew and an advance delegation accompanying President Robert Mugabe to an African Union summit on Friday hurriedly evacuated an aircraft they had boarded after smoke engulfed the plane just before the ageing octogenarian leader boarded it.
Debt ridden Air Zimbabwe faces liquidation
HARARE- State owned Air Zimbabwe has been placed under judicial management after its debt rose to $140 million leaving it facing possible liquidation. On Friday, the High Court appointed a judicial manager and barred the Air Zimbabwe board from any involvement with the company.
Air Zimbabwe UK & SA flights remain frozen
HARARE- Troubled Air Zimbabwe will not resume its suspended regional and international flights until Government takes over the over US$140 million debt and restructures the national airline, an official has said.
Goche halts Air Zim flights to UK & SA
HARARE- The Minister of Transport and Communications, Nicholas Goche, has issued a circular to stop Air Zimbabwe management from flying its aircraft to South Africa and the United Kingdom where one of its long haul Boeing 767 aircraft was recently impounded over an outstanding debt.
Goche named worst cabinet minister in Zimbabwe
HARARE – Transport, Communications and Infrastructural Development minister, Nicholas Goche emerged as the worst performing minister in the inclusive government for the 2011 year, according to the rating of government ministers by the Daily News.
Air Zim debt paid because Mugabe needed plane
HARARE- Government made frantic efforts to pay off a US$1,5 million debt to secure the release of an Air Zimbabwe plane impounded in London mainly because President Robert Mugabe wanted to use it on his medical trip to the Far East.
Air Zimbabwe plane flies home after debt paid
LONDON- An Air Zimbabwe plane impounded in London for more than two weeks over a debt dispute flew home on Sunday after the national carrier settled $1.2 million owed to a US spares company, the airline’s acting chief executive said.
Air Zimbabwe passengers write letter of protest
LONDON- The seizure of an Air Zimbabwe plane in London last week over a US$1,2 million debt inconvenienced hundreds of passengers. Matters got heated at Gatwick Airport resulting in the brief arrest and detention of some four passengers.
Seized Air Zimbabwe plane expected Tuesday
LONDON- The Air Zimbabwe plane seized in London on Monday last week should be released on Monday and is expected in Harare Tuesday morning, an official from the airline has told the state owned media. American General Supplies impounded the Boeing 767-200ER at Gatwick International Airport over a US$1,2 million debt.









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