Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican Defence Ministry has set up a Commission of Inquiry to ascertain the causes of the crash of a training aircraft in Maputo on Tuesday morning.
The light aircraft, belong to the Mozambican Air Force, and in use at the Defence Ministry’s Practical Aviation School, crashed shortly after take-off from Maputo International Airport.
The two people on board, the instructor, named as Maj Firmino, and the trainee, Sgt Eduardo, both lost their lives. The plane came down in the Aeroporto-B neigbourhood of Maputo, and completely demolished a house. Fortunately, nobody was home at the time, and so there were no deaths or injuries among people on the ground.
A statement from the Defence Ministry said that, immediately it became aware of the crash, it sent a team to remove the bodies to the morgue at the Maputo Central Hospital, and set up “a multi-sector team of inquiry to identify the causes of the disaster”.
This is the second crash in less than eight months of an air force training plane in the vicinity of the airport. The first crash occurred in May, and seriously injured one of the occupants of the aircraft.
The Ministry set up a Commission of Inquiry then too – but none of its findings, if there are any, have been made public.
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