Calls for automated weather stations

The Vumba plane crash, which recently claimed six lives along Zimbabwe’s border with Mozambique, could have been avoided if there was an automated weather station in the area, a senior official in the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has said.

The plane crash, which was attributed to mist, resulted in the death of five Mozambicans and one Zimbabwean who were flying to Mutare for a board meeting.

Speaking during a recent media tour of Nyanyadzi irrigation scheme, Manicaland provincial chief MSD officer Lucas Murambi said the government was making frantic efforts to install automated weather stations in all districts.

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