Two who cheated air-crash death 48 years ago


  • Nation
  • Friday, 05 Dec 2025

Mohd Khalid Mohd Yunus and Sitham Nadarajah (right) reliving their fortunate tales of missing the doomed MAS flight in 1977.

KUALA LUMPUR: Mohd Khalid Mohd Yunus and Sitham Nadarajah sigh a big relief, every time the memory of the Malaysia Airlines crash in Tanjung Kupang, Johor flashes by.

Politician Khalid and MAS engineer Sitham ‘miraculously’ missed that fateful MH653 flight at the Penang International Airport, en route to the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah international airport in Subang, on Dec 4, 1977.

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