LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 (2013)

LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470

LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 crashed into the Bwabwata National Park in Namibia on 29 November 2013.

Examples of pilot-suicide are rare, particularly with commercial passenger flights.

Factors which may have contributed to the LAM Flight 470 incident are detailed in the Wikipedia article (below) and repeated here:

"Investigations of the aircraft's pilot revealed that Captain Fernandes had suffered a number of blows of fate prior to the accident. His son died in a suspected suicide in November 2012; Fernandes stayed away from the funeral. The one year anniversary of Fernandes' son's death occurred almost exactly on the date of the accident. His daughter was also in hospital for heart surgery at the time of the crash, and his divorce proceedings had been unresolved for over a decade."

The LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 also conforms to a pattern similar to other incidents that could quite reasonably be attributed to pilot-suicide: each flight ended suddenly, and one of the pilots may have left the flight deck prior to the descent.

Although 'human factors' may have been involved in Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 there is nothing comparable to the sum of Fernandes' problems.

We do not know if one of the MH370 pilots was locked out of the flight deck, but we do know that the aircraft continued flying for hours after deviating from the filed Flight Plan and made several controlled changes of course.

The Wikipedia article for LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 is embedded below:-

Source:LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAM_Mozambique_Airlines_Flight_470

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