Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 27 MAR 1970 |
| Type: | Fokker F-27 Friendship 200 |
| Operator: | DETA Moçambique Airlines |
| Registration: | CR-AIB |
| C/n / msn: | 10205 |
| First flight: | 1962 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 14864 |
| Cycles: | 10147 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Lourenço Marques Airport (MPM) (Mozambique)
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| Phase: | Initial climb (ICL) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Lourenço Marques Airport (MPM), Mozambique |
| Lourenço Marques Airport (MPM), Mozambique |
After over flying Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) Airport's runway 23 at low speed with the no. 2 prop feathered and the landing gear down, the F-27 banked to the right and crashed 450m to the right and 750m from the threshold.
Sources:
» Willem Wendt
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Distance from Lourenço Marques Airport to Lourenço Marques Airport as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
Distance from Lourenço Marques Airport to Lourenço Marques Airport as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
