Labuan - Kota Kinabalu

On June 6, 1976 at 03:41 PM, Labuan - Kota Kinabalu experienced a crash involving GAF Nomad N.22, operated by Sabah Air, with the event recorded near Kota Kinabalu Sabah.

The flight was categorized as government and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

11 people were known to be on board, 11 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 10, passenger fatalities: 10, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The airplane was completing a flight from Labuan to Kota Kinabalu, carrying the Prime Minister of Sabah and his delegation. On final approach to runway 20, while at an altitude of 600 feet and a speed of 86 knots, the airplane stalled and crashed into the shallow sea which was about three feet deep, some 3 km short of runway threshold. The aircraft was totally destroyed and all 11 occupants have been killed. Crew: Ghandi Nathan. Passengers: Tun Fuad Stephens, Prime Minister of Sabah, Datuk Peter Mojuntin, Sabah Minister of Local Government and Housing, Datuk Salleh Sulong, Sabah Finance Minister, Chong Thien Vun, Sabah Works and Communication Minister, Datuk Darius Binion, Assistant Minister to Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk Wahid Peter Andu, secretary to Sabah Finance Minister, Dr. Syed Hussin Wafa, Director of State Economic Planning Unit, Datuk Ishak Atan, Private Secretary to Malaysian Federal Finance Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, Johari Stephens (Tun Fuad's eldest son), Corporal Said Mohammad, bodyguard to Tun Fuad Stephens.

Aircraft reference details include registration 9M-ATZ, MSN 14, year of manufacture 1975.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 6.0384°, 116.1213°.