<p>The pilot of the Mozambique Airlines plane that crashed in Namibia last month, killing all 33 people on board, had intentionally brought the plane down, a media report said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A Mozambique Airlines plane en-route to Angola crashed in a game park in Namibia Nov 30.<br /><br />According to a BBC report Sunday, Mozambique's Civil Aviation Institute said the pilot made a "deliberate series of manoeuvres" causing the crash.<br /><br />The pilot's motives are unknown and the investigation is underway, the report said.<br /><br />Joao Abreu, head of the Civil Aviation Institute, told a news conference that the pilot, Hermino dos Santos Fernandes, had a "clear intention" to crash.<br /><br />Abreu said the pilot locked himself in the cockpit and did not allow his co-pilot back inside until moments before the plane hit the ground.<br /><br />"During these actions you can hear low and high-intensity alarm signals and repeated beating against the door with demands to come into the cockpit," Abreu said.<br /><br />Abreu added that "the reasons which may have given rise to this behaviour are unknown". <br /><br />According to the investigations, the pilot had manually changed the aircraft's altitude and speed.<br /><br />Among the 33 people who died in the crash were one Chinese national, 10 Mozambicans, nine Angolans, five Portuguese, one French and one Brazilian -- all passengers. Besides, there were six crew members on board.<br /></p>
<p>The pilot of the Mozambique Airlines plane that crashed in Namibia last month, killing all 33 people on board, had intentionally brought the plane down, a media report said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A Mozambique Airlines plane en-route to Angola crashed in a game park in Namibia Nov 30.<br /><br />According to a BBC report Sunday, Mozambique's Civil Aviation Institute said the pilot made a "deliberate series of manoeuvres" causing the crash.<br /><br />The pilot's motives are unknown and the investigation is underway, the report said.<br /><br />Joao Abreu, head of the Civil Aviation Institute, told a news conference that the pilot, Hermino dos Santos Fernandes, had a "clear intention" to crash.<br /><br />Abreu said the pilot locked himself in the cockpit and did not allow his co-pilot back inside until moments before the plane hit the ground.<br /><br />"During these actions you can hear low and high-intensity alarm signals and repeated beating against the door with demands to come into the cockpit," Abreu said.<br /><br />Abreu added that "the reasons which may have given rise to this behaviour are unknown". <br /><br />According to the investigations, the pilot had manually changed the aircraft's altitude and speed.<br /><br />Among the 33 people who died in the crash were one Chinese national, 10 Mozambicans, nine Angolans, five Portuguese, one French and one Brazilian -- all passengers. Besides, there were six crew members on board.<br /></p>