Drafting.- Rescue teams in Malaysia have recovered a black box and the bodies of the ten deceased after a small plane with eight people on board crashed on a highway on Thursday, colliding with a car and a motorcycle near Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital.
The voice recorder of the cockpit and the bodies of the ten deceased, the eight passengers of the plane and the drivers of the car and motorcycle that were traveling on the highway in the state of Selangor, adjacent to Kuala Lumpur, when the accident occurred , recovered the day before, according to local media reports today.
The Selangor Police Chief, Hussein Omar Khan, assured from the scene that the Air Accident Investigation Office has recovered one of the black boxes, the one that records the voices from the cabin, and has sent it for analysis.
The other black box, the one that records the flight data, has not yet been found.
“The bodies and body parts found will be sent to the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital in Klang for forensic analysis,” Hussein added.
One of the victims was the chairman of the Local Government, Housing and Environment Committee of the state of Pahang, located in the west of the Malaysian peninsula.
The Malaysian Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement on Thursday that the plane, a Beechcraft Model 390, crashed near the town of Elmina while en route between the island of Langkawi and Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah airport in Subang, near from Kuala Lumpur.
The plane was operated by Jet Valet, an exclusive private flight service.
The Selangor Police Chief then stated that the accident occurred shortly before receiving the green light to land.
“However, two minutes before landing, the plane lost control and hit a motorcycle and a car as it crashed into the road,” Hussein said.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil expressed their condolences to the victims on Facebook.
According to the photos and videos of the accident, you can see the immediate moments of the collision, with a column of smoke and a blackened area of asphalt.
Police are investigating the causes of the accident and the identities of the victims.
