Aimed at returning the carrier to profitability, Lufthansa was hired in January 1986 to carry out a study over the performance of the technical and operational departments. In September the same year, Godfrey M. Mulundika was appointed as managing director. Two ATR-42 were ordered in 1987. These two aircraft entered the fleet during the summer of 1988, and came to replace the HS-748s on domestic and regional routes. Later on, one of these brand new ATR-42s was damaged while landing, but nobody resulted seriously injured. An MD-11 was ordered in 1989 for delivery in January 1992. In March 1990, the chairman position was held by Michael S. Mulenga, and the number of employees was 2,134. At this time, the carrier's network included domestic points along with Bombay, Dar-es-Salaam, Entebbe, Frankfurt, Gaborone, Harare, Jeddah, London, Manzini, Nairobi, New York and Rome. The fleet consisted of two ATR-42-300s, two Boeing 737-200s, one DC-8-71 and one McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30. A Boeing 757 freighter leased from Ansett Worldwide Aviation made Zambia Airways the second non-American carrier, after Ethiopian Airlines, in operating the type. By March 1991, owing to financial difficulties, the airline had closed its offices in New York and Tokyo, terminated the transatlantic services to New York, and dropped plans to fly to Bangkok. Cost-cutting measures resulted in the dismissal of a number of employees as well. Services to Lubumbashi were re-introduced in 1992 after the war forced their suspension.