Struck numb by double disaster


Painful reminder: A part of the MH17 wreckage at a crash site near Rassypnoe, Ukraine. — KAMARUL ARIFFIN/The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: A decade ago, a former chief of the Civil Aviation Department (DCA) was numb with shock and disbelief when he learnt that the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 had been shot down over conflict-hit eastern Ukraine.

“I just went numb. Only four months earlier, we had lost MH370,” Datuk Seri Azharuddin Abdul Rahman remembered.

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