Africa's Best Footballer Dies
This is a Zambia news story, published by BBC, that relates primarily to Kalusha Bwalya news.
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•Zambia: The 1993 air crash and the 2012 Afcon underdogs
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Kalusha Bwalya was Africaâs Player of the Year in 1988 .
Zambia 's stellar generation of players were strongly fancied to take their nation to the 1994 World Cup .
The DHC-5 Buffalo military plane was a military plane that would take them there.
It was not built for long-haul trips so it would have to make regular refuelling stops.
Zambian government has never released the report into what happened to the flight.
Zambia lost all 30 members of their national football team in a plane crash in 1993 .
The plane was headed to Dakar, Senegal , for a World Cup qualifier when it crashed.
The pilot shut down the right-hand engine by mistake, killing all 30 people on board.
Bwalya says he cried when he saw the news of the crash on television.
Zambia had a number of world-class players in every position.
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