Kota Kinabalu: Former Chief Minister Tan Sri Mohd Harris Salleh has called for appropriate compensation by both the Malaysian and Australian governments to the families and those who suffered for 46 years due to withholding their respective findings into the Double Six tragedy as it came to be called.
Kota Kinabalu: The declassified Australian investigations into the Nomad crash that claimed 11 lives on 6.6.1976 revealed that pilots of the Sabah Air-owned aircraft would simply “eye-ball” the location of baggage before taking off.
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.
PUTRAJAYA: There have been many theories and much speculation and mud-slinging but to this day, no one really knows what happened on the fateful evening of June 6, 1976, when several top senior leaders died in a plane crash.
On 6 June 1976, former Sabah Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens and some Sabah political leaders perished in a plane crash enroute to Kota Kinabalu from Labuan.