Kota Kinabalu: The much-awaited Australian investigations into the Sabah Air Nomad 9M-ATZ that crashed killing Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens and 10 others on June 6, 1976 suggests Fuad may have unwittingly contributed to the tragedy by sacking the most experienced Nomad pilot six weeks earlier.
PETALING JAYA: The family of the late Peter Monjuntin is to speak to home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail about finally lifting the 45-year ban on a book about the Sabah leader who died in a plane crash in 1976.
KOTA KINABALU: A claim made in a documentary that the Nomad aircraft had an issue with its tailplane, also known as the horizontal stabiliser, has been backed up by the Australian report into the 1976 Double Six plane crash, says the daughter of former Sabah chief minister Tun Fuad Stephens.
Kuala Lumpur: Australia’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Sydney has decided to allow the release of the entirety of Australia’s reports on the 1976 Double Six tragedy.
KUALA LUMPUR (April 26): The Australian government has finally declassified the 46-year-old report on the “Double Six” tragedy in Sabah on June 6, 1976 that killed all 11 onboard including then Sabah chief minister Tun Fuad Stephens and key state leaders.
This comes a few weeks after the Malaysia