Semenyih crash: Muhyiddin expresses shock, sadness
Bernama
April 5, 2015 02:01 MYT
April 5, 2015 02:01 MYT
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today expressed shock and sadness over yesterday's helicopter crash that took the lives of six people.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today expressed shock and sadness over yesterday's helicopter crash that took the lives of six people, among them Rompin MP Tan Sri Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis
and Datuk Azlin Alias, an aide of the prime minister.
"I am extremely saddened and shocked over the incident which occurred yesterday. I offer my condolences to the families of Tan Sri Jamaluddin, Datuk Azlin and the others," he said in a post on his Twitter account.
Jamaluddin, who was the chairman of Perbadanan PR1MA Malaysia (PR1MA), and Azlin, who was the principal private secretary of the prime minister, and the four other people were flying back from Pekan, Pahang, to Subang, Selangor, when the AS3655N2 Dauphin (9M-1GB) helicopter went down in a rubber smallholding in Semenyih at 4.55 pm.
The four other people have been identified as the pilot, Capt Clifford William Fournier; operations assistant Aidana Baizieva; Jamaluddin's bodyguard Razakan Seran and businessman Datuk Tan Huat Seang.