Elmina plane crash: Pilot shared wife's number with colleague 'in case anything happened to him'


KLANG: Shahrul Kamal Roslan, the pilot of the ill-fated plane that crashed on the Guthrie Highway near Bandar Elmina, Shah Alam on Thursday (Aug 17), shared his wife's phone number with a colleague despite not doing so before.

Shahrul Kamal’s brother-in-law Syed Tahir Syed Mohamad, 39, said the deceased gave his wife's phone number to a colleague known as "Captain Halim" and asked him to contact his wife should anything happen to him.

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