KUANTAN: The Transport Ministry’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has completed its investigations at the site where a helicopter crashed on landing at Batu 9, Jalan Lama Bentong-Kuala Lumpur.
Bentong district police chief Supt Zaiham Mohd Kahar said the bureau completed its on-site work at around 3.30pm yesterday.
He said police and AAIB have handed over the aircraft wreckage to MHS Aviation Bhd for further action.
“I can only confirm that AAIB was present at the crash site, conducted its investigation and has concluded it. As for the aircraft wreckage, my team and AAIB have handed it over to MHS Aviation,” he told Bernama.
The accident involved a Bell 206L4 helicopter, which overturned and caught fire while landing to refuel.
What’s left: Members from AAIB as well as staff from the company that owns the Bell 206L4 helicopter looking at the wreckage in Bentong, Pahang. — Bernama
It claimed the life of an Indonesian ground crew member, engineer Finsen Reskey Sembiring, 27, who was struck by the helicopter’s rotor blades.
The Indonesian pilot survived.
According to Supt Zaiham, Hospital Bentong completed the engineer’s autopsy at 3pm yesterday.
He said the hospital report stated that the victim’s death was caused by a “rotor blade crush injury of the head due to a helicopter crash”.
A check at Hospital Bentong found several individuals, believed to be representatives from the victim’s company, waiting to obtain the autopsy results.
They declined to be interviewed.
On Thursday, the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia said AAIB would conduct further investigations under Part XXVI of the Civil Aviation Regulations 2016.
