It deviated from its course and crashed into the Shah Alam district just before landing. A plane was flying from the northern part of the island of Langkawi to the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport close to Kuala Lumpur.
In totality, 10 killed in Malaysia
All eight persons on board and two individuals on the ground were killed in a small aircraft crash on Thursday on a highway in Malaysia’s central Selangor state, according to police. On Thursday afternoon, while the jet was attempting to land, it smashed into a car and a motorcycle, which is when everything started.
Just before it was scheduled to land, a light private chartered Beechcraft Model 390 (Premier 1) aircraft with six passengers and two crew members crashed nearby Elmina township, according to Selangor police head Hussein Omar Khan.
He added that the plane, which had lost communication with the air traffic control tower, also killed the drivers of a motorcycle and automobile that it struck.
No emergency had been declared, and the plane had been given permission to land, according to Khan.
Jet’s explosion on impact
The airplane was en route through the northern island of Langkawi to the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport close to Kuala Lumpur, according to the country’s civil aviation regulator, CAAM.
The jet swerved off course and crashed to the ground moments before landing, according to Transport Minister Anthony Loke.
Witnesses, according to the National Bernama News Agency, claimed the jet exploded upon impact. Social media users posted videos of a plane crashing into the surface in a ball of flames and spewing black smoke into the air.
The black box cockpit voice recorder was later found, according to police.
Johari Harun: one of the victims
Johari Harun, 53, a top leader in the Pahang state administration in the center of Malaysia, was one of the fatalities. His assistant died as well.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim expressed his sympathies to the departed’s families on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Previous tragedies
It was the second plane crash in the region on Thursday.
A Japan Airlines flight headed for Singapore crashed nearby in September 1977. 34 people died, and 45 people survived.
Private helicopters and planes are frequently used by businessmen and politicians to get around Malaysia.
Jamaluddin Jarjis, a lawmaker, former cabinet minister, and ambassador for Malaysia to the United States, was one of six persons who perished in 2015 after a helicopter carrying them crashed in Pahang on the way back to Kuala Lumpur. Then the chief private secretary to Prime Minister Najib Razak passed away as well.
