The Attorney General’s Chambers applied for a stay of the Judicial Review proceedings commenced by former Chief Minister Tan Sri Harris Mohd Salleh to declassify Malaysian authorities’ investigation report on the Double Six Nomad plane crash in 1976
Since the INA and the Ranis never got acknowledged and neither did free India or any organisation take up their cause in Southeast Asia, they simply got ignored. The struggle of memory over forgetting is the struggle of power, as Milan Kundera has memorably written. Now that the present government has displayed a
Lost potential: Tun Fuad (wearing dark glasses), Conrad Mojuntin (on Tun Fuad’s right) and Peter Mojuntin (seated, on Conrad’s right) on the campaign trail in Matunggong, Sabah, in March 1976. PETRUS CONRAD
FORTY-FIVE years ago today, a Nomad N-22B aircraft that had entered Kota Kinabalu airport airspace began a one-and-a-half-turn spiral plummet that ended in disaster. The plane, which had departed from Labuan, crashed into shallow waters off the coast of Kampung Sembulan Baru, Kota Kinabalu.
Killed in the tragedy on June 6,1976, was the crème de la crème of Berjaya, which had been led by its president, Tun Fuad Stephens, to victory over Usno just two months before in the Sabah state election. The dead were Tun Fuad (Sabah Chief Minister), Datuk Peter Mojun-tin (Local Government and Housing Minister), Datuk Salleh Sulong (Finance Minister), Chong Thain Vun (Communications and Works Minister) and Darius Binion (assistant to the Chief Minister).