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All ten crew members on board two helicopters were killed in a mid-air collision during training at a Royal Malaysian Navy celebration event on Tuesday.
The incident occurred at the Lumut naval base in the western state of Perak at 9.32am (local time), the navy said in a statement.
The victims were “confirmed dead at the scene and sent to the Lumut army base hospital for identification”, it added.
A video from the incident showed multiple helicopters getting into a formation when one of the helicopters clipped the rotor of the other aircraft before spiralling to the ground.
The helicopters – Fennec M502-6 and HOM M503-3 – crashed during a flyover training exercise for the 90th Naval Day celebrations.
The HOM with …
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