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Sunday, December 22, 2013

Mozambican Airlines Flight TM470 Crashed in Namibia Nov 29,2013


Mozambican Airlines flight TM470 left the capital Maputo bound for Angola on Nov 29,2013 but crashed, killing all 33 people all board.


The Civil Aviation Institute said the pilot made a "deliberate series of manoeuvres" causing the crash.
The pilot's motives are unknown, and the investigation is continuing.

The plane went down in heavy rain in Namibia's Bwabwata National Park

The Head of the Civil Aviation Institute, Joao Abreu told that the pilot, Hermino dos Santos Fernandes, had a "clear intention" to crash.
Dos Santos Fernandes locked himself in the cockpit, and did not allow his co-pilot back inside until moments before the plane hit the ground, Mr Abreu said.
"During these actions you can hear low and high-intensity alarm signals and repeated beating against the door with demands to come into the cockpit,"
"The reasons which may have given rise to this behaviour are unknown."
Investigations also showed that Dos Santos Fernandes manually changed the aircraft's altitude three times from 11,500 metres (38,000 feet) to 180 metres (592 feet).

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