Historic find: The wreckage of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) B24 Liberator KL654 aircraft unearthed at Gunung Telapak Buruk, Negri Sembilan. — Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR: “Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! We are going down.”
This distress call was probably the last words uttered by the pilot of a Royal Air Force (RAF) B24 Liberator KL654 aircraft, carrying a crew of eight and war supplies, that had taken off from Cocos Island, Australia, before crashing in a remote forest in Negri Sembilan on Aug 23, 1945.
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