Zambezi Tourist Plane Crash Leaves Five Dead

A German family of four and their South African female pilot died on Tuesday after their plane crashed soon shortly after take off in northeastern Namibia.

The crash, involving a chartered Cessna 210 aircraft with the registration number V5-LMK, happened at about 12h00 at Muwana, a village at Impalila Island, police said.

“There were four occupants plus a pilot and all died on the spot,” chief inspector Elifas Kuwinga said.

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The plane crashed a few minutes after taking off from Impalila island, which lies in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, a unique ecological site with waterfalls, forests and marshland and home to several wildlife species.

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