Michael Schmidt 
Death Flight 
Apartheid’s secret doctrine of disappearance

In the late 1970s, as the apartheid government fought a desperate and dirty battle to stay in power, its security forces devised a chilling new tactic. A shadowy, top-secret unit called Delta 40 was established,  tasked with the murder of hundreds of ANC, PAC, and SWAPO members. Victims’ bodies were flung from aircraft into the Atlantic Ocean. Based on the detailed analysis of flight logs and numerous interviews, Death Flight sheds shocking new light on one of apartheid’s darkest chapters.

About the author

Michael Schmidt is an author, investigative journalist and defence correspondent with more than three decades’ experience in conflict reporting on six continents, including war correspondence work in Guatemala, Darfur and Lebanon.