1999 Air Botswana ATR 42 crash — the full case file

Chris Phatswe destroyed Air Botswana's entire operational fleet in a single crash. On 11 October 1999, an Air Botswana pilot who had been grounded on medical leave commandeered an ATR 42-320 at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and circled for two hours threatening suicide before crashing it into two other Air Botswana aircraft on the ground, destroying all three planes and killing himself. In 1988, the ATR 42-320 aircraft later registered A2-ABB, serial number 101, was manufactured. On October 11, 1999, Chris Phatswe commandeered an Air Botswana ATR 42-320 at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, circled for about two hours threatening suicide, then landed and deliberately crashed the aircraft into two other parked ATR-42s, destroying all three planes and killing himself. The case is recorded as solved. This case file is kept in memory of Chris Phatswe. The full sourced case file, with every fact cited, is at casepin dot org.

Transcript from the video’s narration track. For every source, open the case file.