On Tuesday 1 March 1988, an Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante operating scheduled passenger route MN206, or Comair Flight 206, from Phalaworba to Johannesburg for Comair was approaching Johannesburg International Airport to land when it broke up in flight over Germiston. Reports indicated an explosive device on board; the cockpit was found a quarter of a kilometer away from the rest of the fuselage, despite the flight having been relatively low at the time of the accident. A miner on board had taken out a large life insurance policy shortly before the flight. There were no survivors.