Zimbabwe has seized a US-registered cargo plane which had a dead body and large sums of South African currency on board, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports. Staff at the international airport in the capital, Harare, noticed blood dripping from the aircraft when it had stopped to refuel while flying from Germany to South Africa, it adds.
South Africa's FIn24 news site quotes Zimbabwe's Civil Aviation Authority head, David Chawota, as saying the cargo on the plane belonged to South Africa's central bank.
“The police are now handling the issue and the plane, which is owned by Western Global Airlines, has been grounded at Harare International Airport since Sunday,” he added, Fin24 reports.
The foreign crew of the US-registered cargo jet impounded at Zimbabwe's main airport did not know there was someone else on the plane, the Associated Press news agency quotes an unnamed police officer as saying.
It appears from photos on social media that the dead person, suspected to be a stowaway, had sneaked into the plane's landing gear which severed his arm when it contracted, causing blood to splatter onto the fuselage and arousing suspicion of the ground crew when the flight landed in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, AP reports.
The crew included two Americans, a South African and a Pakistani, Zimbabwe's state-owned Herald newspaper reports.
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