AF 037: RMAF AIRCRAFT CRASH 1

RMAF AIR CRASH RECORDS 

PART ONE

 1 JUN 1958 - 31 DIS 1980 

Blogpage ini bukan bertujuan untuk memaparkan betapa banyaknya pesawat TUDM yang jatuh terhempas sejak TUDM ditubuhkan. Pesawat jatuh, samada pesawat komersil, peribadi atau awam jatuh adalah fenomena biasa di mana-mana negara di dunia ini. Anda boleh membaca wikipedia atau melihat youtube di mana pesawat yang canggih dan sophisticated yang diterbangkan oleh juruterbang berpengalaman juga jatuh terhempas.

Tulisan ini adalah satu inisiatif untuk merekodkan catatan sejarah yang sukar diperolehi. Kita tidak pernah menemui mana-mana buku sejarah atau membaca artikel yang membolehkan kita memperingati rakan-rakan kita yang telah terkorban dalam kemalangan pesawat, sama ada dalam latihan atau dalam operasi.

Biasanya kalau berlaku kemalangan pesawat yang melibatkan juruterbang komersil atau pusat latihan penerbangan awam, tidak banyak publisiti yang ditunjukkan oleh akhbar atau media elektronik. Paling lama 2 hari, cerita akan ditutup. Namun, jika kemalangan yang berlaku melibatkan pesawat TUDM, ia menarik banyak pihak, dan kebanyakannya memberikan kenyataan yang bersifat negatif, sensitif dan 'emotional'.  Kita mungkin tidak menyalahkan akhbar, kerana itulah perniagaan mereka.  Wartawan perlu memaparkan cerita sensasi untuk meningkatkan edaran.  Akhbar mahu pembaca sentiasa menunggu apa sambungan cerita 'kemalangan' dalam akhbar keesokan hari.  Apa kata Menteri?, apa kata PTU?, apa kata keluarga dan kawan-kawan pilot yang terkorban itu?, apa kata kekasih dia?

Pembaca akan merasa seronok kalau ada kenyataan yang menyebut bahawa kemalangan adalah disebabkan oleh teknikal atau arahan salah yang terpaksa dipatuhi.  Kalau kesilapan pilot pun, mereka akan sedap menyatakan bahawa pilot ini tidak cukup latihan.

Kadangkala, pilot TUDM dianggap seperti malaikat yang tidak pernah membuat kesilapan, pesawat TUDM dianggap seperti tikar terbang Do Re Mi yang tak mungkin mengalami kerosakan dan tak mungkin boleh jatuh terhempas. 'Public' menuduh pilot TUDM tidak profesional, pesawat TUDM tidak lagi relevan, juruteknik TUDM tidak berkemampuan, penyelenggaraan pesawat tidak dilaksanakan dengan betul, pesawat TUDM menggunakan alat ganti yang tidak asli (bogus) dan pelbagai tuduhan lagi.

Keadaan bertambah keruh apabila 'Lembaga Penyiasatan' membuat penilaian dan mendapati punca sesuatu kemalangan berpunca dari 'pilot errors' maka saudara-mara seperti tidak mahu menerima kenyataan, menuduh TUDM cuba melepaskan beban kepada orang yang sudah mati. Mereka tak mahu menyalahkan anak mereka.  Anak mereka tidak bersalah, anak mereka tidak akan mebuat kesilapan atau tidak pernah mengingkari arahan atau peraturan penerbangan. Inilah dilemma TUDM.

Biar apa pun punca kemalangan, mereka yang telah pergi adalah sahabat-sahabat kita, saudara kita, sebahagiannya pernah sama-sama bertugas, mungkin semasa menjalani latihan kedet duduk satu blok, atau satu dorm, atau lebih rapat lagi satu double-decker, atau pernah terbang sebagai kapten atau co-pilot, sama-sama 'enjoy' semasa hidup di Mes Pegawai dan mengalami kesusahan dan kesenangan bersama.  Baru beberapa minit usik mengusik di crew room, tak sampai setengah jam kemudian, gusi ketawa tadi pun belum kering lagi, berita kemalangan dan kematian yang diterima.

Saya juga maklum bahawa mungkin catatan saya ini akan menyentuh perasaan mana-mana ahli keluarga kepada individu yang terlibat dalam mana-mana kemalangan udara yang dipaparkan.  Sekiranya berlaku demikian, sila emelkan kepada saya supaya nama-nama individu tersebut akan saya padamkan dari catatan saya.

Saya berpandangan positif kerana dengan membaca atau terbaca nama-nama mereka di bawah, akan boleh mengingatkan kita (rakan-rakan, saudara mara atau anak cucu) untuk mendoakan mereka agar ruh mereka (yang beragama islam) akan dicucuri rahmat oleh Allah azzawajalla. Kalau kita teringat kesilapan mereka, kita akan jadikan sempadan, usah diperkatakan lagi. Hapuskan rasa dendam peribadi. Kita kenanglah jasa mereka, kebaikan mereka, perbualkanlah kebaikan mereka. Maafkanlah segala kesalahan mereka dan doakan kesejahteraan roh mereka.

Data/maklumat di bawah saya perolehi dari pelbagai sumber, akhbar, majalah, website, arkib akhbar-akhbar lama dan sebagainya. Terima kasih kepada rakan-rakan yang membantu memberikan sumbangan berita dan juga memperbetulkan fakta yang salah. Masih banyak yang tidak lengkap. Saya juga mengharapkan pembaca yang mempunyai maklumat yang lebih tepat untuk membantu saya..

Dalam usaha mengumpulkan maklumat berkaitan kemalangan pesawat TUDM saya mendapat sokongan dan bantuan dari seorang rakan facebook yang memmpunyai minat yang tinggi mengumpulkan keratan akhbar berkaitan TUDM sejak peringkat awal TUDM (TUDP) ditubuhkan.  Beliau ialah Kapt Dr Ahmad Damanhuri bin Ibrahim, Pegawai Pelajaran Daerah Kinta Selatan, Perak.  Setinggi-tinggi penghargaan dan terima kasih di atas sumbangan yang amat bernilai dari beliau.

Sejarah adalah sejarah.  Ada sejarah bersifat negatif ada yang positif.  Ia akan menjadi pengajaran kepada generasi mendatang. Semoga tidak akan ada insan-insan yang menggunakan maklumat dalam blog ini untuk membuat cerita negatif, kepentingan diri, bahan gimik berpolitik, memperlekehkan organisasi TUDM atau sebagainya.  Usah berseronok dengan penderitaan orang lain.

1 JUN - 31 DIS 1958

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1 JAN - 31 DIS 1959

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1 JAN - 31 DIS 1960

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1 JAN - 31 DIS 1961

24 October 1961

Pada 24 Oktober 1961 sebuah pesawat terbang satu enjin jenis Scottish Aviation Single Pioneer Tentera Udara DiRaja Persekutuan (Royal Malayan Air Force) telah jatuh terhempas di sempadan Pahang-Selangor yang berhutan tebal dan berbukit bukau, lebih kurang tiga batu menghala ke timur laut Batu 22 jalanraya Kuala Lumpur-Bentong mengorbankan 4 anggota TUDP dan seorang anggota dari Regimen Semboyan Persekuatan. Nama-nama mereka yang terkorban ialah:

Juruterbang: Pilot Officer I. Sachitananathan (28),

Pembantu Juruterbang: Pilot Officer Ong Eng Hye (21)

Aircraftsman: Prebet Mustapha bin Yaa’cob (19)

Aircraftsman: Prebet Ibrahim bin Tajuddin (19)

Anggota Rejimen Semboyan: L/Kpl Mohammed Nor bin Yusuf (31)

Pesawat yang hangus terbakar itu telah dijumpai di lereng bukit yang ‘rugged’ selepas jam 10.00 pagi oleh anggota Batalion Kelima Askar Melayu DiRaja.

Gerakan mencari dan menyelamat dari udara dan darat melibatkan 1,500 orang yang terdiri daripada anggota tentera darat, polis, orang asli dan anggota TUDP sendiri. Gerakan mencari dan menyelamat dibantu oleh tiga orang petani Cina yang melihat kejadian itu. Mereka ialah Chin Sun, Loo Ying Wah dan Ng Sin.

Semua mayat telah dibawa ke Hospital Besar Kuala Lumpur untuk dibedah siasat sebelum dikebumikan.

Empat daripada mereka yang terkorban itu didapati terbaring di sisi pesawat terbang yang malang itu. Kedudukan mereka berdekatan dengan enjin pesawat. Mereka mati serta merta di tempat kejadian.

Pilot Officer Ong Eng Hye, pembantu juruterbang dijumpai 150 ela daripada bangkai pesawat, berhampiran dengan sebatang anak sungai. Kedudukan mayat Pilot Officer Ong Eng Hye menunjukkan beliau cuba merangkak keluar daripada pesawat terbang, tetapi kemudiannya rebah tidak jauh daripada pesawat terbang yang malang itu dan meninggal dunia.

Pilot Officer Ong Eng Hye dijangka akan berkahwin dengan seorang Inspektor polis wanita bernama Blossom Wong yang berasal dari Ipoh pada hujung tahun tersebut.

Pesawat terbang tersebut terlanggar pokok sebelum jatuh terhempas ke tanah. Pesawat terbang tersebut patah dua. Bahagian ekor pesawat kelihatan terpisah sejauh 20 ela daripada badan pesawat. Enjin dan sayap kiri berada berdekatan antara satu sama lain. Sayap sebelah kanan pesawat tidak dijumpai. Serpihan pesawat bertaburan sekitar 25 ela garispusat.

Penerbangan pesawat terbang yang malang itu bertujuan untuk mencari satu kumpulan 72 orang pendaki bukit yang sesat yang akhirnya didapati keluar daripada kawasan hutan tebal dan berbukit bukau tersebut dengan selamat selepas kejadian pesawat yang malang itu terhempas. Ini adalah merupakan kemalangan maut pertama TUDP selepas ia ditubuhkan pada 1 Jun 1958.

(Sumber berita adalah ehsan dari Kapt Dr Ahmad Damanhuri Ibrahim)

1 JAN - 31 DIS 1962

25 April 1962

One RMAF Single Pioneer aircraft force landed near Bentong's Waterworks Gap.  Both pilot were safe. Both pilots, Flt Lt A.A.H Wright and PO Maxmillian A Theseira (24) were  safe with minor injuries.  Theseira retired from TUDM in the rank of Kolonel TUDM.  

Maklumat adalah sumbangan dari Dr Ahmad Damanhuri bin Ibrahim.

27 Jun 1962 

Sebuah pesawat jenis Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer (FM 1067) TUDP jatuh terhempas di Fort Tapong, Perak dan mengalami kerosakan yang teruk. Kapten pesawat yang terhempas ialah Flying Officer Mohamad bin Ngah Said manakala co-pilotnya  Flying Officer Choy Yoon Hoong (bekas ahli Kelab Penerbangan Perak). Pilot, co-pilot serta 12 orang penumpang yang terdiri anggota Pasukan Polis Hutan PTM terselamat. Laporan kecederaan juga tidak diperolehi. Pesawat itu tidak boleh digunakan lagi (written off).  Pesawat ini merupakan pesawat yang baru tiba di KL dari United Kingdom pada 2 Jun 1962. Maklumat ini adalah sumbangan dari Kapten Dr Ahmad Damanhuri bin Ibrahim.

30 August 1962

One RMAF Cessna 310F aircraft crash-landed at the runawayof Kuala Lumpur.  The VIP aircraft which was on training flight faced technical problem, dived and banged the terminal builidng. The pilot, Flying Officer Aziz bin Hassan suffered minor injury.

1 JAN - 31 DIS 1963

1963 (Tarikh tepat tidak diperolehi)

Sebuah pesawat jenis Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer (FM 1002) TUDP jatuh terhempas di Fort Tapong, Perak dan mengalami kerosakan yang teruk. Kapten pesawat yang terhempas ialah Flight Lieutenant Mohamed bin Taib manakala co-pilotnya  Flying Officer Arthur Chia. Pilot, co-pilot serta penumpang (termasuk PO Eugene Cross (EO) terselamat. Laporan kecederaan juga tidak diperolehi. Pesawat ini merupakan pesawat yang baru dibeli dari United Kingdom pada Jun 1962.

Maklumat ini adalah sumber dari Mej Eugene Cross (B) dalam facebook Veteran Tentera Udara. Rujuk juga buku "Flying Dragon' karangan Squadron Leader Paul Monty Choy Yoon Hong, RMAF (Retired), 2014.

 

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22 Jan 1965

One RMAF Alouette 103 helicopter from No 5 Sqn RMAF Labuan air base crashed  in Sabah. The pilot, one senior Army officer and three other passengers in the aircraft escaped death. The crash killed one of the passenger, Major Keith Milner (Staff Officer of 5th Brigade).  The pilot was Flt Lt Mohamad bin Ngah Said and the senior officer is the 5th Brigade Commander, Brig Gen Tunku Ahmad bin Tunku Besar Burhanuddin (37),the other survived passengers were Dato H George (Sabahan), Lt Col Abdul Jamil Ahmad (CO of 1 RMR Bn in Tawau) and Mr Anthony Lamb from Public Works Dept.   

Maklumat adalah sumbangan dari Dr Ahmad Damanhuri bin Ibrahim.

14 Jun 1965

One RMAF Alouette 103 helicopter crash landed on the grass verge beside the KL International Airport, Subang and escaped intensive damage.  Both pilot and co-pilot were safe and unhurt.  

Maklumat adalah sumbangan dari Dr Ahmad Damanhuri bin Ibrahim.

1 JAN - 31 DIS 1966

6 Jan 1966

One Piston Provost (training) aircraft crash-landed on the padi field at  Kuala Nerang, Kedah (about 21 miles from Alor Setar during the training exercise.  The aircraft was badly damaged but the student Pilot Officer Lam Barn Hong safe unhurt.  later, Robert Lam faced a trial in Court Martial under 3 charges of arising out of crash.  However on 23 April 1966, the court acquitted him from the charges.   

Berita akhbar asal adalah sumbangan dari Dr Ahmad Damanhuri bin Ibrahim.

PETALING JAYA, 23 Jan 2010: Former newscaster Robert Lam Barn Hoong passed away Saturday after being stricken with skin cancer for more than three months. Lam, 64, passed away at 5.15am at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre.  Lam dedicated the last ten years of his life to charitable and church works.

Lam had served three years from 1965 as a RMAF pilot flying the Pioneer aircraft after being commissioned from the Royal Military College’s Intake Six a year earlier. He then left for England to pursue a career in insurance management and public speaking. Lam later returned home to read prime-time news for 23 years on TV3, RTM and TV8 Metrovision.

1 Nov 1966

One RMAF Scootish Aviation Single Pioneer  aircraft has been missing during its routine tasking of visiting three jungle forts in Perak-Kelantan border. It is believe that the aircarft landed at Fort Legap and was missing while on the way to Fort Chabai and Fort Kemar. The pilot, Pilot Officer Ch'ng Ching Lee and a passenger known as Mr David Gnanapaul (an air control officer) were in the aircraft.

The search and rescue operations involved RMAF aircrafts, army battalions, Police Force and also orang Asli from the nearby fortswas carried out.  After 10 days the SAR operations was ceased and  they failed to locate the crashed (missing) aircraft until TODAY.

Maklumat adalah sumbangan dari Dr Ahmad Damanhuri bin Ibrahim.

1 JAN - 31 DIS 1967

13 Jan 1967

One RMAF DHC4 Caribou aircraft (M21-02) from No 8 Skn, RMAF Labuan crashed at Meligan Airstrip,  Sabah (59 miles south west of Labuan) on Friday noon, 13 Jan 1967.  The pilot, Flt Lt Arthur Cheah Nee Wah, Air Despatcher Perumal and six other passengers were managed to fled out and survived. Cheah and Perumal were only suffered minor injuries. However the co-pilot,  Pilot Officer Teoh Seng Wah from Kuala Lumpur was killed.  The aircraft which was on an operational supply mission was badly damaged (beyond repair).

20 Okt 1967

One RMAF Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer aircraft crashed at Bukit Dayak, Pahang-Perak border (about 30km from Bidor)  and killed its pilot, Flt Lt Buang bin Ahmad (26, from N. Sembilan), co-pilot Plt Offr Chia Siew Hong (21, from KL) and two dispatchers from 8 Air Dispatch Coy, Taiping, Prebet Ibrahim Hj Ismail (22, from Penang) and Prebet Raffie bin Mohamed Ibrahim (22, from NS).

Pada hari Jumaat 20 Oktober 1967 sebuah pesawat terbang TUDM jenis Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer telah jatuh terhempas di Bukit Dayak, Pahang Darul Makmur mengorbankan empat anggota TUDM. Mereka ialah Flight Lt. Buang bin Ahmad, juruterbang. Pilot Officer Chia Siew Hong, pembantu juruterbang dan dua orang ‘dispatchers’ Prebet Ibrahim bin Haji Ismail dan Prebet Raffie bin Mohamed. Bukit Dayak terletak di sebuah kawasan berhutan tebal di sempadan Negeri Perak - Pahang antara Betau-Bidor, iaitu 30 batu dari Bidor.

Flight Lt. Buang bin Ahmad. Flight Lt. Buang bin Ahmad berasal dari Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus.Beliau dilahirkan pada tahun 1941. Ketika kejadian beliau berumur 26 tahun. Beliau merupakan anak lelaki sulung kepada pasangan Encik Ahmad bin Haji Ali dan isterinya Puan Erah binti Karto. En. Ahmad bin Ali adalah seorang sarjan detektif polis. Flight Lt. Buang bin Ahmad sudah beristeri dan mempunyai seorang anak perempuan berumur setahun bernama Aileen Buang. Isteri beliau bernama Puan Annie Chew Yoon Fong berumur 25 tahun ketika itu. Jenazah beliau telah selamat dikebumikan di Tanah Perkuburan Islam, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur.

Flight Lt. Buang bin Ahmad telah berkhidmat dengan TUDM selama tujuh tahun. Beliau merupakan salah seorang juruterbang TUDM yang pertama dihantar ke New Zealand untuk mengikuti latihan penerbangan lanjutan. Ketika kejadian beliau berkhidmat dengan Skuadron Pertama TUDM. Pada tahun 1963 sewaktu berpangkat Pilot Officer, beliau bersama-sama Flight Lt. Barclay telah menerbangkan pesawat terbang TUDM jenis de Havilland Heron FM 1054 dari United Kingdom ke Pengkalan Tentera Udara DiRaja Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Beliau bertindak sebagai pembantu juruterbang. Selain daripada itu, Flight Lt. Buang bin Ahmad telah diamanahkan untuk menerima Panji-panji DiRaja TUDM daripada Yang Di Pertuan Agong dalam satu upacara Penyerahan Panji-Panji DiRaja Kepada TUDM pada 14 Mac 1967.

Pilot Officer Chia Siew Hong. Pilot Officer Chia Siew Hong, pembantu juruterbang berasal dari Kuala Lumpur. Beliau tinggal di No. 16, Jalan Kandang Kerbau, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. Beliau berumur 21 tahun dan masih bujang. Beliau adalah anak kepada Encik Chia Sum. Beliau menerima sayap penerbangan pada bulan Februari 1967 dari Sekolah Latihan Penerbangan TUDM Alor Setar. Beliau berkhidmat dengan Skuadron Pertama TUDM. Tun Abdul Razak bin Dato’ Hussein, Menteri Pertahanan Malaysia pada masa itu bekata, beliau pernah sekali menaiki pesawat terbang jenis Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer TUDM yang dipandu oleh Pilot Officer Chia Siew Hong. Tun Abdul Razak berkata kepada bapa Pilot Officer Chia, En. Chia Sum, “He is a nice, brave boy”. Mayat mendiang Pilot Officer Chia Siew Hong telah dikebumikan di Tanah Perkuburan Cina, Jalan Lapangan Terbang Lama, Kuala Lumpur.

Prebet Ibrahim bin Haji Ismail berasal dari Pulau Pinang. Berumur 22 tahun ketika kejadian. Beliau berkhidmat dengan 8 Air Dispatch Company of The Malaysian Service Corp. Jenazahnya dikebumikan di Tanah Perkuburan Islam Tanjong Tokong Pulau Pinang.

Prebet Raffie bin Mohamed berasal dari Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus. Beliau juga berkhidmat dengan 8 Air Despatch Company of The Malaysian Service Corp.

Semua mereka yang terkorban telah berjasa kepada agama, bangsa dan negara. Gugur sebagai bunga bangsa dan juga sebagai WIRA UDARA. Kepada semua mangsa yang beragama Islam kita sedekahkan al-Fatihah semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat dan termasuk dalam kalangan mereka yang beriman dan beramal soleh serta meninggal dunia dalam keadaan syahid dunia dan akhirat. Jauhkan mereka daripada siksaan kubur dan siksaan api neraka serta tempatkanlah mereka ke dalam syurga, syurga yang paling tinggi darjatnya di sisi Allah.

(Ehsan: facebook Dr Ahmad Damanhuri Ibrahim)

8 Nov 1967

One RMAF Alouette III helicopter (FM 1081) exploded in the air and crashed down near Sentul Golf Club, Kuala Lumpur and killed on the persons on board. The ilfated pilots were Plt Offr Zainal Abidin bin Hanafi (aircraft captain) and  Plt Offr Mohammad Shir bin Mohammad Ali (co-pilot) and . The other casualtis were 7 aborigines  from aborigines settlement near Kuantan (Batin Seman bin Jani 40, Midah binti Kassim 23, Razali 7, Ramlee 3, Suraya 18 months, Acheh bin Kelomang 10 and Munah binti Kelomang 13).

This was the first fatal crash involving RMAF newly purchased Alouette III helicopter.

The helicopter was on tasking to send back the group of aborigines after getting medical treatment at Gombak Hospital.  This is the first air crash involved RMAF Alloutte III helicopter. Zainal Abidin planned to get married with his fiancee Fauziah binti Dato' Abd Rahman on 24 November (14 more days after the fatal day).

 

13 Dis 1967

A RMAF Single Pioneer plane on training flight crashed in the jungle about 25 miles from Kuantan, killing its pilot. The pilot, who was trapped in the burning aircraft, was identified as Flt Lt Alexander Campbell, 37, a Canadian serving in the RAF and on loan to the RMAF.

The wreckage of the plane was scattered around a small area at the foot of a hill. Its engine and cockpit were in flames – two hours after the crash. Firemen who reached the burning plane were unable to put out the flames due to the shortage of extinguishers. Their fire-engines had to be left near the main road.  All the rescue teams, including the firemen, had to make a four mile jungle trek to reach the aircraft. The seriously injured pilot was brought out and flown to RAF Changi Hospital in Singapore.

An hour after being airborne, the control station at the RMAF base here lost contact with the pilot. The Kuala Lumpur based plane was on its way to Kuantan, believed to be on a training flight, when it crashed at Gambang at about 10.30 am.

A five-man board of inquiry, headed by Wing Commander Gordon Harvey, has started investigations into the cause of the crash.

with courtesy of Kapt Dr Ahmad Damanhuri

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25 Apr 1969

The Alouette 111 aircraft from No 5 Sqn based in Labuan Base was on its routine flight when it  crashed 15 miles from Bintulu (250 miles from Kuching). The accident  killed all 2 aircrews and 2 passengers.  The pilot was Kapt (RMR) Mahmood bin Mohamed Zain (27) from Kelantan and co-pilot was Sqn Ldr Abdul Jalil bin Shamsudin (28) from Perak.  Sqn Ldr Abdul Jalil bin Shamsudin was undergoing his helicopter conversion from fixed-wing. The other two were Corporal T. Balakrishnan (27) and Junior Technician Nasaruddin bin Hj Yahaya (26), both from KL.

The crashed aircraft was in flight from Kuching to Labuan and at the time the fatal aircraft found by an Iban personnel, all the killed crews still strapped on their seats.

(thanks to retired RMAF Capt Jamil Shariff for his updated info)

1 JAN - 31 DIS 1970

30 Mac 1970

One RMAF Caribou DHC4 aircraft (M21-10) with 3 aircrews and 15 passengers on boards crashed into the sea at Cowie Harbour, Telok Cowie, Tawau, Sabah. 10 passengers were killed in the crash (mostly form 4th RMR).  The pilot, Flying Offr Lee Hong Seng, his co-pilot Pilot Officer Wee Eng Lee and 6 other passengers were survived and rescued. This was the worst tragedy in the first 12 years since the establishment of RMAF in 1958. I heard about this when I was in Std 5 primary school.  Keratan akhbar asal adalah sumbangan dari Dr Ahmad Damanhuri bin Ibrahim.

The list of dead:

Kapt Dr John C. Ramanathan

Warrant Officer Ahmad bin Saad

SSgt Raymond Phayer (British Army)

SSgt Yahya bin Ibrahim

Sgt Razali bin Ariffin

Sgt Buang bin Kassim

Sgt Zainuddin bin Mohd Yusof

LCpl Alias bin Ibrahim

LCpl Kamarulzaman bin Mohd Yusof

Signaller Aw Yong Fatt

5 Dis 1970 

One RMAF Hunting Percival Piston Provost on training flight crash landed at Kampung Gadong Jaya, 14 miles from Seremban.  The pilot, Flying Officer Chan Poh Sam  overted a major disaster when he skillfully avoided a car and children crowd  and finally landed his aircraft on the gravel road.  Chan retired from the RMAF in early 1900 in the rank of Lt kol TUDM. Note: I first met Lt Kol Chan P.S  when I was serving in RMAF Kuantan in 1983 where at that time he was the OC No 4 Sqn (PC130H) based in Kuantan before moved to new Subang Base in 1984.

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11 Mac 1972

One RMAF Sikorsky S61N Nuri (FM11-44)  from No 10 Sqn RMAF Kuantan, crashed in Kampung Gambang, about 10km from the RMAF Base Kuantan. The Nuri aircraft was returning to Kuantan from Sempang Airfield (KL)  on a Navigation Training sortie. The aircraft caught fire in mid-air and burned all the way to the ground to crash near Kampong Pulau Manis, Gambang and killing all on board. The aircraft captain was Flying Officer Lim Bok Chun and his co-pilot was Kapt (RMR) Ramli were killed. Also killed were Flt Lt Lim Cheng Kim, a fighter pilot who was a passenger on that flight (need further info to complete the fact) and the AQM Air Sgt Ragupathy.

(with the courtesy of retired Air Capt Jamil Shariff and Maj (R) Musa bin Hassan- thank you Sirs for your correction).

30 Ogos 1972

One RMAF CL41G Tebuan jet aircraft based in RMAF Kuantan skidded on two wheel after itsport under-carriage wheel was malfunctioned during touch down at Subang Airport. The pilot, Flt Lt Abdul Aziz bin Ramli managed to control the aircraft and stopped safely.  The jet was on fly-past practice in the preparation for the 15th National Day anniversary on the next day.

24 Okt 1972  

One RMAF trainee pilot,  Lt M (U) Tengku Mohd Yusoff bin Tengku Hussein, 19 and his instructor Lt Col R.L Robinson, 43 (from US Marine Corps) were killed when a Bell-47 helicopter (belong to the SEA Helicopters (M) Sdn Bhd on training flight  sliced a high tension wire and crashed into the hillside in deep jungle near Ulu Langat.  Those years all the RMAF helicopter pilots were trained by SEA Helicopters (M) Sdn Bhd until RMAF established its own helicopter flying school at KL Air Base.

Keratan akhbar sumbangan Kapt Dr Ahmad Damanhuri Ibrahim

Pada 24 Oktober 1972 sebuah helikopter jenis Bell 47G (gambar) milik South East Asia Helicopter telah jatuh terhempas di sebuah lereng bukit berhutan tebal di Ulu Langat Selangor. Helikopter tersebut terhempas setelah terlanggar kabel elektrik voltan tinggi di kawasan lereng bukit tersebut.

Kemalangan helikopter ini telah mengorbankan dua orang juruterbang. Mereka ialah Lt. Colonel R.L. Robinson, 43 tahun, jurulatih penerbangan dan juruterbang pelatih TUDM, 2nd Lt Tengku Mohamed Yusof bin Tengku Hussein, 19 tahun. Lt Col R.L. Robinson adalah bekas juruterbang Marin Amerika Syarikat.

Adalah dipercayai bahawa jurulatih penerbangan dan juruterbang pelatih tersebut terbunuh akibat terkena kejutan elektrik apabila bilah kipas utama helikopter tersebut melibas kabel elektik voltan tinggi di lereng bukit tersebut.

Helikopter tersebut yang sedang membuat penerbangan latihan berlepas dari Lapangan Terbang TUDM Sungai Besi pada jam 8.00 pagi dan terhempas pada jam 8.12 pagi.

Lembaga Letrik Negera (LLN) (sekarang Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) melaporkan bahawa bekalan elektrik di kawasan Ulu Langat telah terputus mulai jam tersebut. Keadaan cuaca adalah berkabus semasa kemalangan.

Ketua Turus TUDM ketika itu, Dato’ Sulaiman Sujak menyatakan bahawa inilah pertama kali juruterbang pelatih TUDM terbunuh sewaktu menjalani latihan penerbangan.

(Ehsan: facebook Kapt Dr Ahmad Damanhuri Ibrahim)

1 JAN - 31 DIS 1973

9 Mac 1973 

At about 5:30 PM, Friday 9 March 1973 - One RMAF Bulldog 100B aircraft that was performing low level aerobatics at the air show to raise funds for the Ex-Servicemen's Association, crashed while doing a “barrel roll” near the RMAF Base Alor Star. The ex-fighter pilot, Flt Lt Hatta bin Ibrahim (27 years) and six spectators on the ground were killed and five others injured. Unofficial finding was that the pilot’s seat back rest had collapsed backward when the aircraft was in the inverted position, inducing the pilot to uncontrollably pull back the control column as he fell backward with the seat. As a result, the aircraft was pulled through into the ground, as if a downward loop was initiated.  Hatta was then an instructor pilot in RMAF Flying School.

Additional note: Flt Lt Hatta’s younger brother, Kapt (U) Mohd Rashif bin Ibrahim was later years killed (1979) in a Tebuan jet during a practice low level aerobatic, executing a “slow roll”. The aircraft crashed on the RMAF Kuantan runway.

(with the courtesy of retired Air Capt Jamil Shariff- thank you Sir for your correction).

1 JAN - 31 DIS 1974

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1 JAN - 31 DIS 1975

Apr/Mei 1975 

One RMAF Bulldog 100B aircraft from No. 1 Flying Training School, RMAF Alor Setar which was on 'navigation high-low-high in the training area was crash-landed at the newly replanted rubber estate near Kulim Golf Club area due to technical problem.  The trouble happened at 350 feet height during climbing.  The pilot instructor Kapt (U) Subramaniam was able to take the aircraft control from his student, LtM(U) Abdul Jalil Ashaari.  Both safe and  uninjured.

They were rescued and brought back to RMAF Alor Setar by the RAAF helicopter pilot from RMAF Butterworth who received the May Day Call.

Thank you for the 'first hand info' from the person involved in the above crash, LtM (U) Abdul Jalil bin Ashaari pada 4 Nov 2011.

10 Okt 1975 

Sebuah pesawat S61A4 Nuri (FM 1711) dari No 10 Skn, TUDM Kuantan telah jatuh terhempas di atas rimbunan pokok semasa melaksanakan latihan fast roping untuk anggota tentera darat.

Juruterbangnya, Mej Lim Aik Peng dan ko-pilotnya Lt Senin bin Jantan terselamat. Kesemua penumpang juga selamat kecuali seorang pegawai Tentera Darat (pelatih) Lt Abd Razak yang cedera putus sebelah kakinya terkena libasan main rotor blade.

1 JAN - 31 DIS 1976

17 Feb 1976

One Tebuan (Canadair CL 41G) aircraft based at RMAF Kuantan Base  on training flight was crash landed on the base runaway. The aircraft was completely burnt and write-off but the pilo Lt M (Udara) Mokhyiddin bin Abu Bakar was survived (only minor injured). Mokhyiddin retired from the RMAF in the rank of Lt Kol.

26 Apr 1976

One Nuri S61A in operations was fired down by the communist terrorists mortar in the operation area at Gubir Kedah all 11 crews and passenger were killed. The aircrews were Kapt Choo Yeok Boo, Kapt Mustafa Kamal Mohd Shafie, Lt Chung Meng Teck, Lt Wan Munsiff bin Wan Salim.  The late Kapt (U) Choo Yeok Boo was later honoured with bravery medal, Panglima Gagah Berani (PGB)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gGNepqg-_Y

Pada hari ini  (26hb April) dalam tahun 1976, Operasi ‘KOTA’ mencatat sejarah hitam apabila sebuah helikopter Nuri Tentera Udara Di Raja  Malaysia (TUDM)  yang membawa 11 Pegawai dan anggota pasukan keselamatan jatuh ditembak oleh peluru mortar  pengganas komunis pada lebih kurang antara pukul 10.00 hingga 10.30 pagi di Hutan Simpan Ulu Muda, Gubir, Kedah. Helikopter tersebut  dalam perjalanan ke pos-pos tentera di perbatasan Malaysia-Thailand terbakar  dan mengorbankan kesemua pegawai dan anggota termasuk juruterbang. Perwira dan perajurit yang terkorban  ialah:

1.  Mej Haris Rejab,

2.  Kapt (U) Mustaffa Kamal Md Shaffie,

3.  Kapt (U) Choo Yeok Boo (kemudian dikurniakan PGB -posthumous),

4.  Kapt Sulaiman bin Abdullah,

5.  Lt Ibrahim bin  Zakaria,

6.  Lt (U) Wan Munsiff Wan Salim,

7.  Lt (U) Chung Ming Teck,

8.  Sjn (U) Leong Yee Heong,

9.  Sarjan Khamis bin Dolmat,

10. Kpl Kamarulzaman Zakaria dan

11. L/Kpl Suandi bin Saim.

1 JAN - 31 DIS 1977

8 Feb 1977 

One RMAF pilot  Lt (U) Shahruddin bin Ishak killed in Alouette helicopter crashed.

Troops operating on the ground in thick jungle found the wreckage of the RMAF Alouette helicopter and the bodies of the three victims this morning.

They are the pilot Lt. Shahruddin Ishak, 26, Dr. Tan Lip Tiong, 27, and Alang Pedik, 28 both from the Orang Asli medical centre in Gombak.

Two others in the aircraft, Along Sinar, 23, and Akoi Anjang, 24, survived with slight injuries when the Alouette crashed into a mountainside, believed to be about 900 metres above sea level, during heavy rain on Tuesday evening about 35 km north-east of here.

25 Mei 1977

Two RMAF pilot   Kapt (U) Lee Ngan Chai (instructor) and Lt Muda (U) Ismail bin Hj Abu Bakar (trainee) were injured when their  Alouette helicopter crashed near new KL-Seremban Highway about 18km from Kuala Lumpur while on a training flight.  According to the police statement, the helicopter hit the high tension cable before it crashed about 30 metres from the road.  The passers-by help both pilots intied and pull out from the wreckage.

1 JAN - 31 DIS 1978

18 Mei 1978  

One RMAF Tebuan jet crashed into South China Sea near Gebeng about 48 km from Kuantan andkilled its the pilot  Lt M Mohd Jamil bin Dahalan (need to be confirmed - record in RMAF Museum shown the date as 8 May).

1 Jun 1978

One F5E aircraft (22-13) crashed near Butterworth base - the pilot Kapt (U) Jusof bin Embong ejected safely (need to be confirmed).

1 JAN - 31 DIS 1979

23 Jan 1979

A Tebuan jet on training flight crashed near Kemaman, Terengganu and killed the pilot Lt M (U) Affandi bin Shamsuddin.

23 Mac 1979 

One RMAF pilot and his AQM were killed in Alouette 103B crashed at Kampong Bodoh, Semeriang, Kuching, Sarawak. The pilot was Lt (U) Tengku Mahadzir bin Tengku Mukhtar and the name of the AQM was Sgt Ismail bin Sulaiman.

4 Mei 1979

A pilot, Lt (U) ........ Singh s/o Harbajhan Singh, killed when one F5E aircraft crashed near Butterworth air base (need to be verified)

18 Mei 1979

One RMAF Tebuan jet on routine flight at Kuantan Air Base developed engine trouble, crashed into the South China Sea and killed its two pilots, Kapt (U) Mohd Rashif bin Ibrahim and Lt M (U) Rosni bin Ismail (need to be confirmed). Rashif is the younger brother of Hatta Ibrahim who was killed Bulldog crashed in 1973. 

There is aother version of story about this crash: Flt Lt Hatta’s younger brother, Kapt (U) Mohd Rashif bin Ibrahim was later years killed (1979) in a Tebuan jet during a practice low level aerobatic, executing a “slow roll”. The aircraft crashed on the RMAF Kuantan runway.

(with the courtesy of retired Air Capt Jamil Shariff- thank you Sir for your correction).

10 Dis 1979 

One Alouette 103 helicopter of No 2, FTC TUDM Kluang crashed during air test in the RMAF Kluang Base area and the pilot (an instructor), Kapt (U) Wee Kang Beng was killed on the spot.

1 JAN - 31 DIS 1980

16 Mac 1980

one Bulldog 100B on training flight was crashed nearto RMAF Alor Setar base and killed both the instructor pilot, Kapt (U) Haron bin Othman and his trainee pilot, Lt M (U) Mad Noh bin Shafie.

19 Jul 1980

one S61A Nuri helicopter crashed near near Ipoh 18 survived (injuries)- more information required.

23 Ogos 1980

one trainee pilot, Lt M (U) Mohd Ismail bin Mohd Saad  killed in Bulldog training aircaft crash in RMAF Kuantan Base.

23 Sep 1980

One RMAF fighter pilot, Lt Morgan a/l Christmas killed in Tebuan aircraft crashed at RMAF Base Kuantan.

29 Nov 1980

Caribou (M21-12) crashed near Simanggang (Sri Aman). No casualty but the aircraft damaged beyong repair.

M21-12 enroute from Balik Papan to Kuching, the aircraft commander feathered the port engine and continued the flight on a single engine using METO power due to Port IOC fluid low level warning light illumination. The aircraft landed at Simanggang airstrip due to poor weather conditions at Kuching. The port engine was restarted as the aircraft had a main wheel stuck in the mud while turning for backtrack.

The aircraft commander decided to continue the flight after 7 pints of IOC fluid was replenished. STOL technique was used for take off. Just after airborne the starboard feathering button light illuminated. The aircraft becomes uncontrollable and started to yaw and bank to the right. All corrective actions carried out by the aircraft commander to recover the aircraft but failed and ended up crashed 1500 yds from the airstrip.  Fortunately, there was no fatalities. the aircraft was written off. (courtesy: Capt.Kalam bin Pie (RMAF)

Maklumat ini adalah sumber dari Mej Eugene Cross (B) dalam facebook Veteran Tentera Udara. Rujuk juga buku "Flying Dragon' karangan Squadron Leader Paul Monty Choy Yoon Hong, RMAF (Retired), 2014.