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.

LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470

The LAM Mozambique Airlines Embraer 190 involved in the accident.
Accident summary
Date	29 November 2013
Summary	Murder–suicide by pilot
Place	Bwabwata National Park, Namibia 18°11′36″S 21°52′09″E
Passengers	27
Crew	6
Fatalities	33 (all)
Survivors	0
Aircraft type	Embraer 190
Aircraft name	Chaimite
Airline/user	LAM Mozambique Airlines
Registration	C9-EMC
Flew from	Maputo International Airport, Maputo, Mozambique
Flying to	Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Luanda, Angola

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.

Other websites

• Directorate of Aircraft Accident Investigations Namibia
  • Interim Report( Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine)
• LAM Mozambique Airlines – Index of press releases related to the crash
  • Flight TM 470 (Archive)
  • Voo TM 470 (in Portuguese) (Archive)
• Embraer
  • "COMMUNIQUÉ." (Archive) 30 November 2013.
  • "COMUNICADO." (Archive) 30 November 2013. (in Portuguese)