WINDHOEK, Nov 30: Police on Saturday found the burned wreckage of a Mozambican Airlines plane a day after it went missing in a remote area in northeastern Namibia, saying none of the 33 people aboard from several countries had survived.
It is one of the worst accidents on record in Mozambique’s civil aviation history.
“My team on the ground have found the wreckage. No survivors. The plane is totally burned,” Willie Bampton, a regional police coordinator in Namibia’s Kavango region, said.
The aircraft, en route from Mozambique to Angola, went down in deserted, swampy terrain in the Bwabwata National Park, where Namibia turns into a narrow strip of land sandwiched between Botswana and Angola.
In Maputo, LAM, the acronym for Mozambican Airlines, had not yet officially confirmed the crash. It only said that flight TM470 had 27 passengers and six crew on board, including: 10 Mozambicans, nine Angolans, five Portuguese, one French national, one Brazilian and one Chinese.
In Lisbon, the foreign ministry said the Brazilian had, in fact, dual Portuguese-Brazilian nationality.—AFP
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