PUTRAJAYA: \u00a0Australia will also release the Sabah Air plane crash reports which killed the then Sabah Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens\u00a0along with several state Cabinet members in 1976, and Malaysia has no objection to it, said\u00a0Transport Minister Anthony Loke.
\nLoke said the Australian side was prepared to release their report.
\n\u201cNo issue for them to release their report on their side,\u201d he\u00a0told reporters after witnessing Interim Stage Bus Support Fund (ISBSF) signing ceremony here today.
\nLoke said Malaysia had\u00a0communicated with the Australian government through their high commission in Malaysia on the timing of the report to be released.
\n\u201cThe Australian side respects our government because the accident happened in Malaysia and they have\u00a0asked for our opinion and approval to release the report,\u201d he said.
\nThe crash,\u00a0dubbed as ‘Double Six Tragedy’, involved an Australian-made Nomad 9M-ATZ aircraft operated by Sabah Air\u00a0carrying prominent personalities from Labuan, which crashed in Sembulan district while approaching Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Sabah, on June 6, 1976.
\nThe final report\u00a0of the investigation into the Sabah Air plane crash has been classified as an open document and can be accessed on the Transport Ministry\u2019s website starting April 12.
\nEleven lives were lost in the tragedy including top leaders of the Sabah Government at the time, namely Fuad (Chief Minister of Sabah); Datuk Peter Joinod Mojuntin (Sabah Housing and Local Government Minister); Datuk Chong Thien Vun (Sabah Minister of Communications and Public Works) and Datuk Salleh Sulong (Sabah Minister of Finance).
\nAlso perished were Datuk Darius Binion (Assistant Minister to the Deputy Chief Minister of Sabah); Datuk Wahid Peter Andau (Permanent Secretary of the Sabah Ministry of Finance); Dr Syed Hussein Wafa (Director of the Sabah Economic Planning Unit) and Ishak Atan (Secretary to the Malaysian Finance Minister).
\nCorporal Said Mohammad (personal bodyguard to the Chief Minister); Johari Fuad Stephens (son of the Chief Minister) and Gandhi J Nathan (pilot of the 9M-FTZ aircraft) were also killed.
\nLocal media today quoted Fuad\u2019s family as saying that\u00a0Malaysia\u2019s declassification of the report on the tragedy will not give a complete picture unless Australia\u2019s reports on the matter are also released.
\nPrime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on April 5 said the decision to reveal the final report of the Double Six Tragedy was made after taking into account the demands of the next of kin as well as the views of the people of Sabah who wanted detailed information about the incident.
\nOn March 8, the media reported that the High Court in Sabah ordered Putrajaya to take the necessary steps to declassify the report.
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