Re: flights into Biafra
The MIG pilot was the legendary Charles Viviers. Ex SAAF and a hooligan of note. He was my first instructor & regaled me with many of these stories. He had also done a stint in the Congo flying for Katanga. After the Biafran war was over he came back to SA with all the MIG21 flight manuals and a list of the Russian pilots that were being sent to Angola to bolster the communist faction of the new regime about to take over with new Russian aircraft. The SA authorities apparently showed him the door. He set up a flight school in Windhoek which was a bit of a dull occupation after his other exploits. He eventually ended up fish spotting off the West Cost of SA. I last met up with him Cape Town where he had just been questioned by the security police for recruitment of mercenaries for ops in Angola.
He passed away not long after this. An absolute legend definitely deserving a book or a movie.