Wreckage of Mozambique Airlines plane crash
Wreckage of Mozambique Airlines plane crash
Experts have started carrying out DNA tests to identify the 33 people who were on the Mozambique Airlines Flight TM470 from Maputo that crashed in Namibia killing all on board.
Thirty one bodies had been pulled from the charred wreckage of the plane in the swamps of northern Namibia’s Bwabwata National Park, as at late Sunday.
Namibia, as the country where the accident occurred, will lead the investigation with other investigators drawn from Angola, Brazil Mozambique and the US National Transport Safety Board.
The crash is one of the worst incidents in Mozambique’s civil aviation history.
The aircraft came down in torrential rains on Friday in the remote Namibian region killing its six crew and 27 passengers.
The victims’ bodies were transferred by helicopter to the Namibian capital Windhoek from the crash site some 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) to the northeast.
The plane, which went down en route from Mozambique to Angola, was a Brazil-manufactured Embraer 190 aircraft and the newest plane in the airline’s fleet.
The plane’s black boxes have also been recovered along with two voice recorders, Captain Ericksson Nengola, Director of Aircraft Accident Investigations at the Namibian Transport Ministry said.