| Date: | Saturday 28 March 1970 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Fokker F-27 Friendship 200 |
| Owner/operator: | DETA Moçambique Airlines |
| Registration: | CR-AIB |
| MSN: | 10205 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1962 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 14864 hours |
| Cycles: | 10147 flights |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Lourenço Marques Airport (MPM) -
 Mozambique
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Lourenço Marques Airport (MPM/FQMA) |
| Lourenço Marques Airport (MPM/FQMA) |
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 450 m to the right and 750 m from the threshold.
Sources:
Willem Wendt
José Vilhena
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 5 December 1969 | CR-AIB | DETA Moçambique Airlines | 0 | Beira (BEW) | |
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Location
Images:
photo (c) Jose Vilhena; Lourenço Marques Airport (MPM); 28 March 1970
photo (c) Jose Vilhena; Lourenço Marques Airport (MPM); 28 March 1970
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