BWABWATA — 2013 · Major Tragedy
Crash of LAM Flight 470
On 29 November 2013 LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470, an Embraer 190 flying from Maputo to Luanda, descended rapidly from cruising altitude midway through the flight and crashed into marshland in Namibia's Bwabwata National Park. All 27 passengers and 6 crew died. Heavy rain was falling in the area and early assessments focused on the weather. But preliminary findings released in December 2013 by Mozambique's Civil Aviation Institute showed that the captain had locked the cockpit door when the co-pilot left, ignored alarms and changed the autopilot settings, deliberately bringing the plane down. The case is often cited in discussions of crashes caused by pilots' intentional acts.
- Date
- 2013
- Place
- Zambezi, Namibia, Bwabwata, NA
- Category
- Major Tragedy
- Case Status
- Closed
- Coordinates
- -18.1900, 21.8700 ↗
Timeline of Events
- 29 November 2013LAM 470 crashed in Namibia's Bwabwata park; 33 died.
- 30 November 2013The wreckage was found with no survivors.
- 21 December 2013Preliminary findings showed the captain crashed the plane deliberately.
Sources
- Al Jazeera — Pilot 'deliberately' crashed Mozambique plane aljazeera.com ↗
- CNN — Deaths reported in air crash near Namibian-Angolan border edition.cnn.com ↗
- BBC News — Mozambique plane missing bbc.co.uk ↗
- Wikipedia — LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Al Jazeera
- CNN
- BBC News
- Wikipedia
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