KUALA LUMPUR: A small aircraft crashed onto a highway near Shah Alam in the Malaysian state of Selangor on Thursday (Aug 17), killing 10 people including an assemblyman.
“For now, I can say at least 10 people were killed in the plane crash. Two passing motorists – one in a car and one on a motorcycle – also perished together with the eight on board the plane,” Shah Alam district police chief Mohamad Iqbal Ibrahim told AFP.
The private jet, carrying six passengers and two crew members, was travelling from the resort island of Langkawi to Subang airport in Selangor when it crashed at about 2.10pm, just before it was due to land.
The aircraft lost contact with the air traffic control tower and crashed into a motorbike and a car on the highway, Selangor police chief Hussein Omar Khan told reporters.
“There was no emergency call, the aircraft had been given clearance to land,” he added.