Members of the fire and rescue department inspect the crash site of a plane on a street in Shah Alam, Malaysia’s Selangor state on August 17.//AFP
A light plane crashed into a four-lane road near Malaysia’s capital on Thursday, killing eight people on board and two motorists on the ground, the local police chief said.
The plane exploded into a fireball on impact, with thick black smoke seen rising from the site, video clips from the scene showed.
“For now, I can say at least 10 people were killed in the plane crash. Two passing motorists — one in a car and one on a motorcycle — also perished together with the eight on board the plane,” Mohamad Iqbal Ibrahim told AFP.
Johari Harun, a state assemblyman in central Pahang state in charge of housing and the environment, was among the plane passengers killed, police said.
Malaysia’s civil aviation authority said in a…
