Enjin AirAsia tiba2 mati sebelum terbang...

Enjin tiba-tiba mati, pesawat AirAsia ke Bandung cetuskan panik...

AirAsia Indonesia sekali lagi dilanda masalah apabila enjin salah sebuah pesawatnya bagi laluan Surabaya-Bandung tiba-tiba mati di landasan ketika hendak berlepas.

Menurut laporan Metrotvnews.com, pesawat yang membawa 120 penumpang itu mengalami masalah tersebut sewaktu hendak berlepas dari Lapangan Terbang Bandara Juanda.

Kejadian itu mencetuskan suasana panik kepada penumpang yang telah bersiap sedia berada di tempat duduk masing-masing.

Menurut seorang penumpang, Yusuf Fitriadi, terdapat bunyi yang kuat pada enjin pesawat sebelum ia tiba-tiba mati, dan pesawat mula berundur sendiri.

"Kami terkejut dan panik. Saya pun turut ketakutan. Pesawat tersebut akhirnya berundur ke posisi asal semasa kami menaikinya dan kru kabin meminta kami turun pada saat itu juga," katanya kepada Metrotvnews.com.

Pesawat itu dijadualkan bertolak jam 9.00 malam, namun mengalami masalah enjin yang dikatakan berpunca daripada monitor starter.

Juruteknik pesawat bagaimanapun berjaya memperbaiki kerosakan tersebut.

Meskipun telah dibaiki, hampir kesemua penumpang mengambil keputusan untuk tidak meneruskan perjalanan kerana bimbang akan mengalami masalah sama di udara.

Susulan itu, AirAsia telah mengembalikan wang kepada penumpang yang tidak meneruskan perjalanan dengan pesawat tersebut.- astro awani

Passengers refuse to fly after Air Asia engine failure...

An AirAsia flight departing from Surabaya suffered an engine failure just before it took off on Saturday night, according to local news media.

The plane, bound for Bandung, had been taxiing for 2 to 3 minutes before takeoff when the engine suddenly died, horrifying passengers, who heard a loud sound, Indonesia’s Metro TV reported.

It returned to the gate and the 120 passengers on board were asked to disembark while the plane underwent repairs, the station reported.

Passenger Yusuf Fitriadi told Metro TV that a man clad in pilots’ uniform told passengers waiting at the terminal that the starter monitor had malfunctioned.

“The plane was ready and moved, but suddenly a loud sound was heard, the sound of the engine disappeared and the plane moved backwards. We were shocked and panicked.”

Yusuf said that the airline later told passengers that the flight would be resumed after the issue had been attended to, but about 90 per cent of them refused to reboard the plane, fearing that the fault would reoccur during the flight.

AirAsia refunded the fares of those passengers who did not continue with the flight, Metro TV reported.- fmt

Kenapa tulis untuk Phua, bukan Al-Qaradawi...

Berdasarkan kenyataan peguam Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, PKR membuat kesimpulan bahawa surat Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi berhubung Paul Phua(pix atas, kanan) yang didakwa 'raja judi', adalah sahih.

“Saya ingin berterima kasih kepada Shafee kerana walaupun menteri dalam negeri belum menjawab, peguam Umno nombor satu telah menjawab salah satu soalan yang saya tujukan kepada Zahid.

“Berdasarkan kenyataan Shafee, kita kini tahu bahawa surat rahsia Zahid kepada FBI (Biro Siasatan Persekutuan) yang didedahkan South China Morning Post adalah sahih dan benar,” kata pengarah komunikasi PKR Fahmi Fadzil .

Justeru, Fahmi (kanan) mempersoalkan tindakan Zahid itu yang mengeluarkan surat untuk individu seperti Paul tetapi “tidak berkata apa-apa” apabila Polis Antarabangsa (Interpol) mengeluarkan waran tangkap terhadap sarjana terkemuka Islam Dr Yusuf Al-Qaradawi.

Ini katanya dengan mengambil kira kedudukan Yusuf yang diiktiraf kerajaan Malaysia sebagai tokoh Maal Hijrah sebelum ini.

Interpol sebelum ini mengeluarkan waran kepada Yusuf, 88, yang dikaitkan dengan kegiatan Ikhwanul Muslimin yang diharamkan kerajaan Mesir.

PKR juga terus menuntut penjelasan berhubung "projek-projek berkaitan keselamatan negara" yang dibantu Phua dan kenapa surat itu dikeluarkan tanpa nasihat peguam negara.

Fahmi juga bertanya jika Zahid dapat mengesahkan bahawa Phua seorang ahli kongsi gelap 14K ataupun bukan.

“Oleh itu, saya meminta Zahid untuk menjelaskan pernahkah Paul Phua ditangkap dan/atau didakwa di Malaysia kerana aktiviti jenayah seperti perjudian atau pengubahan wang haram? ” soalnya.

Beliau membangkitkan laporan Global Financial Integrity, berhubung kedudukan Malaysia yang hilang RM170 bilion akibat pengaliran wang secara haram pada 2012, termasuklah pengubahan wang haram melalui perjudian.

“Tidak mustahil kumpulan-kumpulan kongsi gelap terlibat dalam aktiviti ini,” katanya.

Semalam, Shafee berkata, surat Zahid kepada FBI itu bagi membetulkan kesilapan dalam laporan Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM).

Peguam itu, yang mengadakan sidang media bagi pihak pasukan peguam bela Phua, juga menegaskan bahawa kumpulan 14K, yang dia didakwa menganggotainya tidak beroperasi di Malaysia.

Laporan berhubung kontroversi surat itu didedahkan oleh harian Hong Kong, South China Morning Post pada 18 Disember, yang turut menyiarkan semula keseluruhan kandungan surat itu.

Phua sekarang berada bawah tahanan rumah di Las Vegas dan berdepan pertuduhan menjalankan operasi perjudian haram daripada Hotel Caesar’s Palace semasa Piala Dunia Brazil tahun lalu.

Kwong Wah Yit Poh melaporkan Zahid sebagai enggan mengulas perkara itu ketika ditanya pemberita di Putrajaya semalam.

Katanya, beliau akan membuat sidang media berkaitan perkara itu pada masa yang lain.- mk 

As flood recedes, Orang Asli still out of aid...

As the country reels from the country's worst flood in decades, the Orang Asli community living in the interiors of Kelantan, Pahang and Perak found themselves to be the last to get much needed aid.

However, much needed aid arrived by air yesterday after NGO United Sikhs dropped some 2,350kg of supplies to 278 families to the Temiar community in the interiors of Gua Musang, Kelantan.

In a Facebook posting, the NGO said it flew six sorties from its Kuala Betis base camp to eight locations with 11 orang asli settlements.

It said some 1,000 of the local population had been cut off due to landslides.

"The flood in the last 10 days also devastated their tapioca, hill paddy and vegetable crops," it said.

Some villages have also been cut off for up to three months as roads collapsed at the beginning of the monsoon season.

The aid delivery by air was a collaboration between United Sikhs and the Centre for Orang Asli Concerns.

Prior to the delivery, Jaringan Orang Asal SeMalaysia (Joas) had made a desperate appeal for help for the indigenous community in the area.

"More than 20 Orang Asli villages in the interior Kelantan have been cut off for almost 10 days since the floods.

"They remain unreachable and uncontactable and we do not have much information on their current condition.

"Army helicopters delivered food but it was some time ago and not all areas were reached," it said.

Police alerted, but still no help

Some say they received an aid drop off once by the Orang Asli Affairs Department (Jakoa) but the supplies have run out.

Volunteer Firdaus Nisha Muhammad Faizal said in Kuala Koh the river broke its banks and submerged Orang Asli home within two hours.

Firdaus and six friends spent four days on an ad hoc relief mission delivering food and other supplies through their NGO friends.

"The villagers were quick and resourceful enough to make a large raft to ferry people from one end of the river to the other side where later they would head to higher ground," he wrote on Facebook.

These villagers, whose homes were surrounded by oil palm plantations received help from the estate manager but not all were as fortunate.

In Temerloh, 140 families in Kampung Paya Pelong have been trapped since Dec 26 even though flood waters have receded in other parts of the district, said Joas representative Shafie Dris said.

He said the village chief Harun Sok managed to report the situation to the Kerdau police station but hardly any help arrived.

"Nothing has arrived since then except for 30 bags of rice from the Kuala Krau elected representative and a few kilos of rice from NGOs and church for 140 families,” he wrote on Facebook.

Supplies hijacked

Meanwhile, in Dabong, Kelantan, aid workers complained their supplies were “hijacked” by some villagers.

Aid worker Mohd Zulkifli Daud said supplies in seven Toyota Hilux intended for Kampung Mahligai was offloaded by a nearby village.

"The aid mission was stopped, they overran it, open up (the vehicles) and took the food for themselves," he said.

He added that a villager had tricked them by telling them that the bridge ahead to Kampung Mahligai had collapsed.

A video of Zulkifli relating his experience was posted on Facebook by Siti Kasim, a Bar Council human rights committee member who also assisted in the United Sikhs mission.- mk

Bila Menteri buat kenyataan2 yang bluuur...

cheers.