Zim news flash

[Chambudzi]

News Flash from Zimbabwe

President Robert Mugabe has sent two plane loads of Zim policemen to New Orleans in the wake of hurrucan Katrina to assist the looting

[mini]

Classic, I love it!

[Coleman Myers]

Confirm the two aircraft have since diverted to Entebbe to buy fuel ?

[praenoscere]

:} :} Confirm currently under legal attachment at Entebbe due to unpaid landing fees.

[jimmythegong]

Confirm all tyres were still on when aircraft left Harare?

[Stayinalive]

Confirm that they know where New Orleans is?

[porridge]

If the wake of this they will probably re-name the airport there to: Bobby Strongarm'!

[james ozzie]

Latest information from the White House suggests that the New Orleans disaster may have been the work of a suicide plumber.

[Coleman Myers]

Apparently they have left Entebbe. Fuel secured, promisory note, seven farms,two bakkies and three mombies mortgaged to Julius at EBB Shell BP ... number of tires unlear although one Kampala flea market push cart seen sporting some oversize rounds - possibly a side deal on the fuel ...

[gb777]

Quote from Airliners.net

A friend at Changi who works for the ground handling copany SATS told me today that the crew of UM's Flt. 770 operating yesterday from HRE was stranded after their hotel turned them away. Evidently, Air Zimbabwe hasn't paid the hotel for several months, and until the debt is cleared, they will no longer house crews. Rather than return to the airport, the crew paid for rooms out of pocket.

Air Zim is sustaining very heavy losses on the route to SIN and PEK. Evidently, planes are operating at less than 50% capacity. SATS likes this because its easy to turn the planes around (when they arrive on time).

Mugabe's "Look East" campaign is causing UM to hemorage money. Amazingly, UM is talking about expanding in Asia!

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/2338530/