PETALING JAYA: Preliminary investigations into a crash involving two helicopters in Taman Melawati last month confirmed a mid-air collision did occur.
It was also revealed that the two Guimbal Cabri G2 helicopters – registered as 9M-HCA and 9M-HCB – had maintained a distance between 50m and 120m of each other at all times, the Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) said in its report.
The bureau comes under the Transport Ministry.
“But at 11.44am, for reasons still unknown, the helicopters started to converge and collided a few seconds later, ” the report stated.
The report also revealed that 9M-HCA passenger Tan Chai Eian, alerted its pilot, ex-MAS group chief executive officer Datuk Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, that the other helicopter was getting closer.