According to Zim press the pilot of the F-7 that crashed in the DRC was flown by a Wing Commander not Enslin and was due to bad weather not combat. Al Venter in his book "War Dog" as told to him by Dave Atkinson an AFZ AB412 helicopter pilot who flew in the DRC says Enslin was shot down by a surface to air missile while flying a close air support mission for Zimbabwean Soldiers in a Hawk Mk60 not an F-7. According to Atkinson Enslin spent three weeks not five days escaping and evading from the Rwandans and then fought out with the Zimbabwean soldiers he was supporting. The F-7 is a point defence fighter and it is most likely that the Hawks were used far more extensively in the Ground attack role than the F-7 interceptors. The BBC reported the Hawks were used extensively around Kinshasa and there was a picture of a Hawk carrying BL755 cluster bombs on there website. Was there any air to air fighting in the DRC?
