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eventREF E-0012099Revised

20 April 1968

SA Boeing 707 crashes in Namibia

Updated
30 Sep 2019
SA Boeing 707 crashes in Namibia

Pretoria, a Boeing 707 of South African Airways (SAA), en route to London and only in use for seventeen days, crashed and exploded shortly after take-off from Windhoek airport. Of the 129 people on board, 122 were killed. 

How we know this

  1. 01Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 1, p. 257.
  2. 02Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.
  3. 03https://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:OBbC01pvN5oJ:
  4. 04www.caa.co.za/publications_files/Safety%2520Link/Safetylink.june.pdf+The+Boeing+707+ Pretoria+crashes+in+Windhoek&hl=en&gl=za&ct=clnk&cd=2

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2011, March 16). SA Boeing 707 crashes in Namibia. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012099

South African History Online (2011) 'SA Boeing 707 crashes in Namibia', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012099 (Accessed: 7 October 2026).

South African History Online, SA Boeing 707 crashes in Namibia [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012099, (accessed 7 October 2026).

"SA Boeing 707 crashes in Namibia." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012099. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "SA Boeing 707 crashes in Namibia." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012099.

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