Lourenço Marques - Lourenço Marques

On March 28, 1970 at 12:00 AM, Lourenço Marques - Lourenço Marques experienced a crash involving Fokker F27 Friendship, operated by DETA Mozambique Airlines - Direcção de Exploração dos Transportes Aéreos, with the event recorded near Lourenço Marques Maputo City District.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

4 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 3, passengers on board: 1, passenger fatalities: 1, other fatalities: 0.

After overflying Lourenço Marques Airport's runway 23 at low speed with the right propeller feathered and the landing gear down, the airplane banked right and crashed in flames 450 meters to the right of the runway and 750 meters from the threshold. The aircraft was destroyed and all four occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration CR-AIB, MSN 10205, year of manufacture 1962.