[BREAKING]Five feared dead in Zimbabwe plane crash

At least five people are feared to have been killed when a small aircraft crashed Monday in Zimbabwe near the border with Mozambique, Mozambican officials said.

Six people , including two crew members , were on board the plane which was flying from Mozambique’s port city of Beira to Mutare on Zimbabwe’ s eastern border .

“According to initial reports there could be a survivor and we cannot confirm if the others are dead ,” Joao de Abreu , the director of Mozambique’s civil aviation authority (IACM), told a news conference in Maputo .

Zimbabwe’s state - owned daily The Herald reported that all six on board had died.

“The weather conditions were unfavourable, which is the probable cause of the accident ,” said De Abreu .

The plane was carrying four executives from Cornelder , a private Mozambican- Dutch company that manages the port of Beira , the IACM said.

It is thought that executive director Adelino Mesquita, the brother of the Mozambique’s transport minister Carlos Mesquita, was a passenger on the plane.

The nine- seater twin - engine Britten Norman Islander aircraft was being operated by ETA Air Charter , a private airline company blacklisted by the European Union , Abreu added.
AFP