IPOH: Police are leaving it to the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) to investigate allegations that the aircraft which crashed in Kapar, Selangor on Tuesday was not fitted with a black box or flight recorder.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said police's investigations are focused on other matters related to the crash while technical issues have been handed over to CAAM.
"The technical issues are under CAAM. They will be probing whether it (black box) was there or not, that will be investigated by CAAM.
"Police will be investigating the incident itself while CAAM will also have its own probe. However, on technical issues, it is best to ask CAAM," he said.
Razarudin was speaking to reporters after officiating the closing ceremony of the 2024 Internal Security and Public Order Department Mara Lasak Test at the General Operations Force Northern Brigade Base in Ulu Kinta here today.
Previous reports, quoting an officer with an agency under the Transport Ministry, had alleged that the BK 160 Gabriel light aircraft was not fitted with a flight recorder.
The officer had also claimed that the aircraft did not have a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) or a global positioning system (GPS) equipment.
The aircraft, which was reportedly operated by the Air Adventure Flying Club, had departed from the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang at 1.28pm yesterday for a recreational flight.
Its last communication with the authorities was at 1.35pm.
The crash claimed the lives of two people in the aircraft, namely Daniel Yee Hsiang Khoon, 31, and Roshaan Singh Raina, 43, were killed in the crash.
Their remains were found in the cockpit, which had to be extracted from a depth of 1.52 metres in the ground.
A post-mortem examination on the two victims confirmed that they had died due to the multiple injuries they sustained.
The Air Adventure Flying Club has since clarified that the light aircraft was not owned or operated by the club but belongs to a foreign company that uses its hangar to promote the aircraft in Malaysia.
Singapore-based flight training company Aviation Safety Technology (AST) was named as the entity in question.
CAAM however said based on documentation, there was nothing to show that the aircraft belonged to AST.