On the 29th of November a LAM Mozambique Airlines Embraer E-190 regional jet was en route to Luanda, Angola, with 27 passengers and 6 crew, when radar contact with the aircraft was suddenly lost.

A search for the missing aircraft was subsequently initiated, which was initially hindered due to storm activity in the region.

On the 30th of November the Namibian civil aviation regulator received reports from Botswana authorities and villagers located in the Sambesi Region of the Bwabwata National Park, that they had identified the crash site of the aircraft, which technically fell within Namibia’s borders.

Namibian authorities reached the crash site on the same day, and confirmed that the aircraft had been completely destroyed.

The Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder have since been recovered and are currently being analysed.

The aircraft was reportedly en route to its destination, when it suddenly began to descend at a rate of 6,000 feet per minute.

No communication or emergency was relayed from the flight crew. There are no immediate indications of what may have caused the accident.

On the 16th of October 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice and the collaboration of American Airlines and US Airways officially reached an agreement regarding the airlines’ proposed merger.

The Department of Justice had originally blocked the merger of the two airlines due to the potentially anticompetitive implications resulting from the merged airlines’ slot allocation at a number of U.S. airports. As a result, American Airlines and US Airways agreed to relinquish 52 pairs of takeoff and landing slots at Ronald Reagan-Washington National Airport and 17 pairs of slots at LaGuardia Airport.

The Department of Justice will subsequently be tasked with distributing the slots, which will likely be distributed among a number of U.S.-based Low-Cost Airlines. The merger is now expected to be finalised in December 2013.

A Bearskin Airlines Metro III regional aircraft was on approach to Red Lake Airport, with seven occupants on board, when the aircraft reportedly severed power lines and impacted the ground shortly after. Both of the flight crew and three passengers perished in the accident.

A passenger sitting in the rear of the aircraft survived and was able to drag a second passenger form the aircraft before the wreckage was engulfed by flames.

The latest reports indicate that the two surviving passengers are in a stable condition. The cause of the accident is not yet known and will likely not be determined until the accident investigation has been completed.