'No sabotage' in crash, says declassified Double Six report


Rescue personnel surrounding the wreckage of the GAF Nomad aircraft that went down on June 6, 1976 at Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

KOTA KINABALU: The Transport Ministry has made public the ‘Double Six’ crash report that killed 11 people including the then Sabah chief minister.

Transport Minister Anthony Loke in releasing it, said this was in line with the announcement of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to declassify the June 6, 1976 crash.

According to the 20-page report, there was no evidence of "sabotage, fire or explosion".

The full report can be seen here.

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