Dominique Thet Saw
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Plane crash in Malaysia
Authorities in Malaysia have confirmed the crash of a small aircraft in the seat of silango with no survivors from the accident 10 people had been killed police say the private plane slammed into a highway in the Shah Alam District colliding with two vehicles the dead include eight who were on board the aircraft and two motorists a local politician pahang assemblyman Johari harun is among the private jet passengers the plane was our route from the northern resort island of Langkawi to subang airport in selango just two minutes away from Landing when it appeared to encounter trouble and plummeted to the ground the country's civil aviation Authority says a safety probe will be launched and from what CNAs our FIFA Arvin joins us live from FIFA what more can you tell us about this crash well what we know so far is only from the details of the statement released by the civil aviation authority of Malaysia and the police what we know is that the private aircraft was operated by jet Valley and it took off from Langkawi airport at about 208 PM scheduled to land here at the subang airport in Selangor which is about 15 kilometers away from the crash site where we're at the first Contact made with air traffic control tower was at about 2 47 pm and the land the clearance for landing was given at 2 48 PM but just to four minutes later the control tower saw smoke coming out from the crash site but no May Day call was made the authorities arrived on the scene about 10 minutes later and they say it's a very complex situation and of course investigations are still ongoing as of now what is certain is that there are no survivors from the crash there are 10 casualties reported so far eight on board the plane according to the plane's manifest and this includes like you said earlier a pahang state assemblyman and exco member Johari harun two more casualties on the ground the driver of a car as well as a motorbike rider but it's not known as of now whether there are any more casualties for instance if the bike had a pillion Rider or if there were other passengers in the car the remains of the victims were you know taken to clang hospital at about 5 00 PM for post-mortem now this area is a suburb in Shah Alam and this highway is actually literally right next to a park and a residential area with hundreds of houses I'm told by the residents here that this road there's usually heavy traffic especially in the mornings and in the evenings of course the authorities had cotton off about 100 meters stretch and as of now they're still clearing up all of the debris oh a FIFA as you mentioned investigations are ongoing and anything else apart from what Authority say is speculative but have there been any initial findings at this point about the cause of the accident no details of any sort of initial findings just yet the authorities like I said earlier saying this is a very complex situation they're still trying to determine the cause of the accident and whether there are any more victims and also they are still trying to identify and confirm uh the identities of the victims involved condolences of course have been pouring in you know earlier at the sites the Malaysia's King Sultan Abdullah also visited and it was seen comforting what seemed to be families of the victims the transport Minister Anthony look spoke to the media at subang airport earlier and he said that the safety protocol was activated immediately after the incident and as of now the aircraft accident investigation unit is mobilized and are currently looking for the planes Black Box we're also still awaiting for more updates to schedule from the police so we'll bring you all the latest as soon as we have them and thanks for that have been reporting live was from Charlotte in salamo.
By Dominique Thet Saw11 months ago in Chapters