Crash probe ends, helicopter wreckage handed over to company

 

The wreckage of a Bell 206L4 helicopter that crashed near Bentong while returning to refuel. (JBPM pic)

KUANTAN: 

The Air Accident Investigation Bureau has completed its investigations at the site of a helicopter crash off the Bentong-Kuala Lumpur road yesterday.

Bentong police chief Zaiham Kahar said the bureau completed its on-site work at about 3.30pm today, and the aircraft wreckage has been handed over to MHS Aviation Bhd for further action.

The accident involved a Bell 206L4 helicopter wet-leased by MHS from an Indonesian company for the installation of power cables in the area.

The aircraft reportedly overturned and caught fire while landing to refuel, killing a member of the ground crew, Indonesian engineer Finsen Reskey Sembiring, 27, who was struck by the helicopter’s rotor blades. The pilot survived the incident.

Zaiham said the autopsy on the engineer confirmed that the victim died of a “rotor blade crush injury on the head”. - FMT