A Mozambique Airlines flight crashed on Saturday, killing all 33 people on board.
Flight TM 470 left from Maputo on Friday, heading for the Angolan capital Luanda with 27 passengers and six crew members. However it later lost contact with air traffic controllers and it was found that the flight had crashed in a game park.
According to Namibian Police Force Deputy Commissioner Willy Bampton, rescue workers found the remains of the wreckage in Bwabwata National Park, near the borders with Angola and Botswana.
"The plane has been completely burned to ashes and there are no survivors," Bampton said according to Reuters.
The black box and voice recorder of the flight was recovered by investigators, but the scene is gruesome.
"The bodies are scattered all over the place. It's a horrible sight," a ranger, who identified himself only by his surname, Shinonge told Reuters.
The park, measuring about 2,300 sq. miles is home to many animals like elephants, lions and wild dogs.
According to Mozambican officials, there was bad weather and poor visibility at the time when the plane, went missing.
The aircraft, an Embraer 190,left the Mozambican capital Maputo at 11:26 a.m. (0426 GMT) on Friday and was supposed to land in Luanda much later.
A helicopter was called to search for the plane on Friday but the search was called off due to heavy rain. The search continued on Saturday.
According to Brazil's Embraer SA, the plane had been delivered to Mozambique Airlines in November 2012. The company is sending their own investigators to the crash site.
Mozambique Airlines released a statement on its website saying that the 27 passengers on Flight TM470 as 10 Mozambicans, nine Angolans, five Portuguese, one French, one Brazilian and one Chinese.
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