Real cause of air crash never known - Yong

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president Datuk Seri Panglima Yong Teck Lee told the High Court here yesterday that he was only asking the relevant authorities to re-open the air crash tragedy file and re-investigate as the formal investigation report and the real cause of the air crash has never made known to the public.

Yong, 53, said that in his press statements, he had never even once made any reference to the plaintiff Tan Sri Harris Salleh as he alleged.

‘Significant’ start to legal battle between former CMs

A defamation suit against former CM Yong Teck Lee is set to re-open the 'Double Six Tragedy' that took the lives of 12 in 1976.


KOTA KINABALU: Today is June 6, the day newly appointed Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens and four state ministers were killed in a 1976 plane crash while returning from Labuan after negotiating Sabah’s oil and gas rights.

By a quirk of fate today too the High Court here had its first hearing of a defamation suit involving two former Sabah Chief Ministers over the plane crash.