On this night back in 1986, a plane crashed killing Mozambique’s President Samora Machel.
But why it ploughed into mountains on the border with South Africa remains a mystery.
We look at suspicions the apartheid regime was behind the tragedy following years of conflict with Maputo.
Machel was a roaring revolutionary and Pan-Africanist who not only liberated his homeland from colonial rule but also supported South African liberation movements seeking to rid the continent of the last vestiges of colonialism.
At the time of the fatal crash he was only 53 years old.