Saifulnizam (right) and Faizal (left) briefing Nazili on the plans of the day.
PILOTS with the Fire and Rescue Department’s Air Division are tasked with different assignments, leaving each one of them with unique experiences.
The pilots often lead missions to transport the sick from remote rural areas to hospitals and to put out large forest fires; they also handle humanitarian missions like delivering aid to disaster areas, transporting donated organs or even flying Orang Asli schoolchildren to school when roads are cut off.Such missions are normal for pilot Saifulnizam Samsudin but, sometimes, there is that one mission that stays with a pilot, and for him it was when he had to lead a team to retrieve the wreckage of a Eurocopter belonging to the Royal Airforce.
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