JOHANNESBURG: A Mozambican Airlines captain had a “clear intention” to crash an aeroplane that went down in Namibia killing 33 at the end of November, according to a preliminary investigation reported on Saturday.
Flight recorders showed flight TM470 went down on November 29 while Captain Herminio dos Santos Fernandes manipulated the Embraer 190’s autopilot in a way which “denotes a clear intention” to bring the plane down, said Mozambican Civil Aviation Institute head Joao Abreu.
He said that Fernandes locked himself inside the cockpit, ignored warning signals and did not allow his co-pilot back in moments before the Embraer 190 hit the ground. AFP
