Aviation

12.1, crash, fatalities

Namibia: five foreign tourists and their pilot were killed in Namibia after their light aircraft crashed into a house on takeoff. They said the five dead tourists were believed to be from Israel, although there was no immediate confirmation from the Israeli authorities. The aircraft, operated by Atlantic Aviation, crashed during a stop-over in the capital Windhoek for refuelling, while on its way to the Etosha National Park in the north of the country. According to the director of aircraft accident investigations at Namibia’s department of civil aviation, the aircraft was a six-seater Cessna 210, which took off in the late afternoon from Eros airport.