KUALA LUMPUR: The Transport Ministry’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau will be the one to issue any statements regarding the light aircraft crash in Kapar, Klang, according to Transport Minister Anthony Loke.
Loke stated on Saturday (Feb 17) that “Any factual statement on the matter will be issued by the AAIB” in response to a recent report by an English daily regarding the crash of a Gabriel BK160TR that killed two people on Tuesday (Feb 13).
A report in the daily had quoted the plane’s manufacturer Blackshape saying that it had issued a “no-fly order” for the plane on Oct 25, 2023 and that the aircraft was taken into the air in violation of that order.
According to the manufacturer, several reminders were sent to the aircraft’s distributor and the “absolute no-fly order” was due to the impossibility of verifying the condition of use and maintenance of the aircraft.
The crash of the light aircraft in Kapar, Klang resulted in the deaths of pilot Daniel Yee Hsiang Khoon, 30, and passenger Roshaan Singh Rania, 42. Their bodies were recovered about six hours after the crash, which occurred at about 1.50pm.
Yee was from Penang, while Roshaan Singh was from Johor. The aircraft had taken off from the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang before crashing around 40km east at Kampung Tok Muda, Kapar.
