The pilot of a Mozambican airliner that crashed in
Namibia last month deliberately brought the plane
down, aviation experts in Mozambique believe.
Mozambican Airlines flight TM470 left the capital
Maputo bound for Angola on 29 November, 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.
'Clear intention'
The plane went down in heavy rain in Namibia's
Bwabwata National Park.
There was a 'clear intention' to crash, investigators
say
But the head of the Civil Aviation Institute, Joao
Abreu, told a news conference 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," he
was quoted as saying by state news agency AIM.
"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) - below ground level.
He also manually altered the aircraft's speed.
Earlier this week, Namibian investigators said they
had detected "no mechanical malfunction" that
could have led to the crash, and the plane was one
of the newest in the airline's fleet.
The 33 people who died included passengers from
Mozambique, Angola, Portugal, Brazil, France and
China.
Mozambican Airlines is currently banned from
airspace in the European Union, along with all other
carriers certified in Mozambique, because of safety
concerns.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25482083

May i never be in a plane being flown by a psycho. If the guy wanted to commit suicide why did he have to take people with him.

May God save us from evil doer

Space booked incase of incasity

incase

Afam4eva: May i never be in a plane being flown by a psycho. If the guy wanted to commit suicide why did he have to take people with him.

it beats me, why couldn't he just kill himself by jumping off that plane, idiotic behaviour