Falcon 50 remains, near Kigali airport, Rwanda.
What is left these days of Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana's Falcon 50 wreckage which was shot down killing him and the president of Burundi whilst on final approach to Kigali airport in 1994. After this assassination the largest genocide in recent history took place. There is not alot left of this wreckage...I am surprised there is this much left of the wreckage after eighteen years. We have all seen the movie 'Lord of war' where an Antonov is completely dismantled overnight!
Africa flashbacks... Late one afternoon enroute from Nairobi, Kenya to Mwanza, Tanzania I took this photo looking North over the Masai Mara bordered by thunderstorms.
Occasionally when I had an empty aircraft, lots of time and flying over a world famous area like the Serengeti plains I would take advantage of the the situation with an impromptu scenic flight for yours truly. If anybody ever asked why I took so long (no one ever did), I could just blame weather or headwinds...
Featured above is Olduvai Gorge on the border of the Serengeti Plains National Park and Nogorongoro Conservation Area. In this gorge some of the worlds oldest Humanoid fossils and primitive tools have been discovered. What a hard start for ancient man! If I was ancient man I would have preferred to be somewhere like New Zealand where there are no angry potential man eating predators with big teeth, just a bunch of flightless birds.
Main road through the Serengeti, one must always watch out for the potential two million four legged pedestrians.
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