Taxi service from Namibian Defence Force

There is intrinsically nothing wrong with a non-military person making use of a Namibian Defence Force (NDF) aircraft such as the ill-fated helicopter that crashed at the Grootfontein Military Base recently.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Peter Shivute said that only an indemnity form needs to be signed and approved before boarding.
“The NDF is here for the service of the Namibian people,” Shivute stated, while refusing to go into detail as to the circumstances that can result in a civilian boarding an NDF aircraft.
Unless in times of national emergencies, military transport is off-limit to ordinary citizens.
According to information from the ministry there were two pilots and eight passengers on board the Chinese-manufactured Harbin Z-9 military aircraft when it crashed immediately after take-off on 11 April. Four of the 10 people on board the helicopter died at the crash site, while two boys aged three and six were admitted at Katutura State Hospital and later succumbed to their injuries. The boys, McVince Mwiya and Hendrick Amalwa were children of soldiers and were visiting relatives in Windhoek.
Those that died on the spot included 28-year-old co-pilot Eve Nghimwenavali, Wilka Ndanyengwa Sheya, 27, and 52-year-old Toini Nekulilo Martin. Martin was a member of the Namibian Police Force and mother of Martin Shoopala, the NDF air traffic controller at Grootfontein. Amalwa was Martin’s nephew.
Three other, identified as Johanna Hailaula, 31, Werner Nashilundo, 35, and Nabot Kamati, 35, who were also on board are still in a critical condition at hospitals in Windhoek.
An investigation team made up of Namibians, Chinese experts and the manufacturers of the Z-9 helicopter is currently underway.
Meanwhile, the NDF personnel carrier plane that crash landed at the Omega Military Base in the Zambezi Region in December 2013 remains languishing on the runway, more than four months after the initial accident. 
The plane’s tyres reportedly burst upon landing at Omega and was damaged after performing an emergency landing while on a mission to the fatal Mozambican plane crash site in Bwabwata National Park that recorded no survivors. The plane reportedly experienced landing complications due to bad weather and a grass-filled runway which led to one of its tyres coming off upon hitting the runway.
The latest photographs of the plane with registration NAF-3-642, taken less than two weeks ago, show the plane, which suffered extensive damages to its wings parked on a smaller adjacent strip to the main runway at Omega Airport.