POLICE have confirmed 10 people were killed after a plane crashed on Guthrie Highway near Bandar Elmina this afternoon.

Selangor police chief commissioner Hussein Omar Khan said the 10 victims were local men.

He said the 10 victims were eight passengers and crew of the Beechcraft Model 390 (Premier 1) plane and two motorists on the Guthrie Highway.

Hussein said at 2.40pm, the craft was given permission to land by the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport control tower.

“But the plane crashed about two minutes before it was due to land in Subang.

“(The plane) crashed into a car with one passenger and a motorcyclist,” Hussein told reporters at the crash site.

Firefighters took 10 minutes to put out the blaze from the crash.

Hussein said police believe 10 people have died in the incident. The dead have been sent to Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital in Klang for post-mortem.

Earlier, the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) said there was no mayday call from the aircraft.

CAAM chief executive officer Norazman Mahmud said the aircraft was operated by Jetvalet Sdn Bhd, and had departed Langkawi International Airport at 2.08pm for Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport.

“The first contact made by the aircraft with the Subang Air Traffic Control Tower was at 2:47pm and landing clearance was given at 2:48pm.

At 2:51pm, the Subang Air Traffic Control Tower observed smoke from the crash site but no mayday call was made by the aircraft,” Norazman said in a statement.

Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah arrived at the scene later. The Agong was seen consoling distraught family members of the victims.

Ingress and egress lanes to the Guthrie Corridor Expressway (GCE) are temporarily closed, reported Bernama.

Prolintas in a statement today said the roads are closed until cleanup and investigations are complete.

“Firemen, police, ambulances and GCE patrollers are at the scene to clear debris from the crash and control traffic,” said the statement, which asked road users to find alternative routes and to call its hotline at 1800 228 888 for more information.

This is the second plane crash near Elmina.

The first incident was on September 27, 1977, when Japan Airlines flight 715 crashed into a hillside some 6km from the Subang airport.

The craft broke on impact and a fire erupted. The accident killed 34 people – eight of the 10 crew and 26 of the 69 passengers.

The flight departed Haneda Airport in Tokyo for Singapore (now Changi) International Airport, with stopovers at Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong and Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang.

The remains from the crash could be found in the soil surrounding the estate until 2011. Most of the land now has been converted for development.

The crash was the second-deadliest aviation disaster to occur in Malaysia until the crash of Malaysian Airlines system flight 653 two months later, which killed 100. – August 17, 2023.