Rhodesian air traffic was not seriously threatened until about 1977, in the latter stages of the war; before this time, neither revolutionary force had the weapons to launch a viable attack against an aerial target.
直至1977年的戰事後期前，羅德西亞的航空交通一直都沒有受到重大的威脅，在此之前，兩個革命力量均沒有武器對空中目標發動可行的攻擊。