LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470
LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 was a scheduled international passenger flight by carrier LAM Mozambique Airlines from Maputo International Airport of Maputo, Mozambique. It crashed on 29 November 2013 into the Bwabwata National Park in northern Namibia en route to Quatro de Fevereiro Airport of Luanda, Angola. The wreckage of the aircraft was found the next day. All 27 passengers and six crew members were killed. It was later found out that the aircraft was crashed on purpose by the pilot, Herminio dos Santos Fernandes, in an act of murder-suicide.
All crew members and ten passengers were from Mozambique, nine from Angola, five from Portugal, one from France, one from Brazil, and one from China.
References
Other websites
Directorate of Aircraft Accident Investigations Namibia
Interim Report () LAM Mozambique Airlines - Index of press releases related to the crash
Flight TM 470 (Archive) Voo TM 470 (Archive) Embraer" COMMUNIQUE." (Archive) 30 November 2013." COMUNICADO." (Archive) 30 November 2013.
2013 disasters
Murder in 2013
Aviation accidents and incidents in the 2010s
Murder-suicides
Transport in Africa
21st century in Namibia
Mozambique
November 2013 events
2010s disasters in Africa