Kapar aircraft crash: Sombre atmosphere as victims' bodies recovered
The victims’ family members were seen hugging and consoling each other.
KLANG – A sombre air hung over at Kampung Tok Muda in Kapar, here, as the bodies of the pilot and co-pilot of the downed aircraft were recovered by the search team.
The incident, which unfolded earlier in the day, left residents and onlookers reeling from the tragic turn of events.
As the bodies – which were wrapped in white bags – were taken out of the crash site, the victims’ family members were seen hugging and consoling each other.
The bodies of the victims, identified as pilot Daniel Yee Hsiang Khoon, 30, and Roshaan Singh Raina, 42, were retrieved after about six hours of search operations.
The bodies were then transported by two police trucks to Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, here, for post-mortems at 8.05pm.
Grieving family members were then seen leaving the crash site at 8.20pm, believed to be heading to the hospital for the latest updates.
Earlier today, videos of the debris found from the downed aircraft were widely shared on social media platforms.
The authorities later confirmed that two persons including the pilot were onboard the light aircraft model BK 160 Gabriel, operated by Air Adventure Flying Club.
The aircraft departed from Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, Subang, Selangor at 1.28 pm for a recreational flight and the last contact made by the aircraft with air traffic control was at 1.35pm.
However, there was no distress call received.
Selangor police chief Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said that the search team found the two victims – in their 30s and 40s – still in the cockpit which were plunged more than two metres deep at the palm oil plantation ground.
