Elmina plane crash: Plane made banked turn before the crash (VIDEO)

Elmina plane crash: Plane made banked turn before the crash (VIDEO)

Based on the one-minute dashcam video, the plane appears to have banked to the right before descending sharply to the ground. — SoyaCincau pic

Thursday, 17 Aug 2023 10:30 PM MYT


KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 — We’ve obtained exclusive footage of the Elmina plane crash that happened at 2:50pm this afternoon. The new footage provides a clearer view of the plane about 10 seconds before impact.

Based on the one-minute dashcam video, the plane appears to have banked to the right before descending sharply to the ground. The aircraft is a 6-seater Beechcraft Premier 1 jet operated by Jet Valet which departed from Langkawi Airport at 2.08pm for Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (Subang Airport).

The plane banking to the right. — SoyaCincau pic


According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM), the aircraft made first contact with Subang Air Traffic Control Tower at 2:47pm and landing clearance was given a minute later. At 2.51pm, Subang ATC tower observed smoke originating from the crash site and no mayday call was made by the aircraft. The original dashcam video showed a timestamp 14:50:58 at the time of impact.

The jet moments before impact. — SoyaCincau pic


CAAM reported that the small private jet had a total of six passengers and two flight crew. Eventually, it was reported that 10 people had lost their lives, which included two people (motorcyclist and motorist) on the ground. A safety investigation will be conducted by Air Accident Investigation Bureau under the Ministry of Transport Malaysia.

Smoke rises from the impact of the jet as it hit the ground. — SoyaCincau pic


In a press conference held this evening, Transport Minister Anthony Loke said aviation authorities, police and investigation are currently scouring the site of the private jet crash in Bandar Elmina for the black box as part of their investigation. He told reporters that early indications show that the private jet had veered off its flight path and banked to the right. At the moment, the priority is to look for the black box which would help to provide more answers.

Among the names listed on the flight manifest include Pahang assemblyman Johari Harun, along with Kharil Azwan Jamaludin, Shaharul Amir Omar, Mohamad Mohamed Muaidi, Muhammad Taufiq Mohd Zaki and Idris Abdol Talib @ Ramali. The two pilots are Shahrul Kamal Roslan and Heikal Aras Abdul Azim. — SoyaCincau

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kt comments:

A truly horrid look at the final moments of the plunging light jet as it rolled into a fatal dive.

I have seen 3 videos (1 from a live TV screening) of final moments of jet aircraft.

The first was the 2nd plane of the 9/11 Twin Towers (deliberate-suicide) crash - it so happened that morning many years back I was having my breakfast while viewing CNN or some other American TV news. The 1st jet had already crashed into one of the Towers thus the TV crew had already set up the camera to capture the burning Tower. That was when the 2nd airline jet (a B767 I believe) came barrelling through the sky smack right into the remaining Tower. Initially it looked like a small private jet but I subsequently learnt it was B767.

The second occasion was a USAF safety training film which showed a B52 bomber performing a very steep turn at low level during an airshow. It was a shocking moment as I saw the tip of the lower (left) wing hit the ground whilst the aircraft was turning - the left wing immediately SHATTERED into pieces before the whole bomber crashed.

The photos shown today (& I saw another from the FB page of my matey Tan Khai Beng) which exhibited the most horrid view of the Beech jet rolling into a steep dive almost-vertically straight down into the ground - with that scene there was nothing on Earth which could have saved the plane. It was just horrible.

Again I speculate there were the possible/following situations which could have brought the plane into such a doomed flight profile:

(1) the lowered flap was asymmetric (one side lowered, the other didn't, failed, etc) - meaning the aerodynamic configuration put the plane at such low level (final landing stage) into a sudden (unexpected) strong rolling moment which the pilot couldn't cope with, or wasn't aware of the flaps lowing in an asymmetric configuration,

(2) an aileron (wings control) had failed - meaning the resulting asymmetric aerodynamic configuration suddenly disabled/denied the pilot's control of the rolling moment of the plane at such low level (final landing stage), one which the pilot didn't cope with,

(3) an engine failed where the asymmetric power configuration resulted in an unchecked swing (& the plane yawed, rolled and dived into its fatal plunge). However, a trained pilot who was on the alert should be able to cope easily with such an emergency,

(4) I hate to list this one - that of the pilot (one of them) deliberately flying the plane into such a dive.

Number 1 would be most disastrous, No 2 'iffy' whilst No 3 and 4 unlikely.