The night of the 28th of April, the Zambia national football team died in a plane crash, a tragic accident where there weren't no survivors. The eighteen players, the 3 trainers and the president were travelling from Port Louis (Isla Mauricio) to Dakar (Senegal). The accident took place 2 kilometers after they left Libreville (Gabón). The Gabonese Navy investigated the entire crash site to find passengers, but they found no survivors.
The Zambia football team was doing a very good job in the first phase of the African Cup, and that accident, was terrible for the country. The plane, a Buffalo from the Zambian Army, stopped to refuel in the Libreville Airport and, a few minutes after the left the airport, the plane started falling to the sea, for unknowns reasons.
The Zambia football team was doing a very good job in the first phase of the African Cup, and that accident, was terrible for the country. The plane, a Buffalo from the Zambian Army, stopped to refuel in the Libreville Airport and, a few minutes after the left the airport, the plane started falling to the sea, for unknowns reasons.
This video is a tribute to all the people that died that day:
The song playing in the video, is a song recorded by the Zambian artist Simwinji, and the name of it's song it's Osaibala. It is sung in the Nyanja language, that is commonly spoken in Lusaka and other parts of Zambia. "Osaibala" have a simple meaning: "DON'T FORGET".
