Y Thursday, January 29, 2009
26 January 2009
My friend told me about this newspaper article thus I decided to go and read it and at the same time share it online again.
He spent whole night upside down
Student pilot rescued from Johor plane crash after 24 hours
Only 48 hours ago, Mr Sanjay Purosottam's life was literally hanging in the balance, precariously on the branch of a tree on a jungle hillslope in Gunung Pulai.
The 40-year-old member of the Elite Flying Club had crashed his Cessna 152 aircraft, which he had been piloting solo that morning, sometime after 10.15am.
According to reports, Mr Sanjay then hung upside down in his cockpit for almost 24 hours, before the Singapore permanent resident was rescued early yesterday morning.
But rescuers, who had been unable to get to him until daybreak, kept talking to Mr Sanjay all night to keep him awake and make sure that he was still okay.
However, due to strong winds, the pilot obtained permission from the Department of Civil Aviation to return, only to lose contact with the Senai air traffic control tower at 10.15am.
The wreckage of his plane was only found seven hours later, at around 4.30pm.
About 60 personnel from Johor Bahru's Fire and Rescue Department and the General Operations Force (Malaysian police's paramilitary wing) were sent to rescue him.
But they were unable to free him immediately from the wreckage due to poor visibility and the precarious position of the plane.
Finally, at about 7am yesterday, Mr Sanjay was airlifted from the scene by a Fire and Rescue Department helicopter to the Sultan Ismail International Airport in Senai before an ambulance took him to the Sultanah Aminah Hospital.
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