According to the wikipedia article, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH653, a Boeing 737-2H6 aircraft registered as 9M-MBD crashed at Tanjung Kupang, Johor, in Malaysia on the evening of 4 December 1977. All 93 passengers and 7 crew were killed instantly. The flight was apparently hijacked as soon as it reached cruise altitude. The circumstances in which the hijacking and subsequent crash occurred remain unsolved.
Flight MH653 departed Penang’s Runway 22 at exactly 19:21 hours for Kuala Lumpur’s Subang Airport (now known as Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport).[Passengers included the Malaysian Agricultural Minister, Dato’ Ali Haji Ahmad; Public Works Department Head, Dato’ Mahfuz Khalid; and Cuban Ambassador to Japan, Mario Garcia. The pilot in command was Captain G.K. Ganjoor.
At approximately 19:54 hours, while at an altitude of 4,000 feet over Batu Arang and descending toward Subang’s Runway 33, captain G.K. Ganjoor reported an “unidentified hijacker” onboard to Subang Tower. The tower immediately notified the authorities, who made emergency preparations at the airport.
A few minutes later, however, Captain Ganjoor radioed: “We’re now proceeding to Singapore…”. Flight MH653 never touched down at Singapore.
At 20:15 hours, all communication with flight MH653 was lost.
At 20:36 hours, the residents of Kampong Ladang, Tanjong Kupang in Johor reported hearing explosions and seeing burning wreckage in a swamp. The wreckage was later identified as Flight MH653. The plane hit the ground at a near-vertical angle at a very high speed. There were no survivors and not one recognizable body was found
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