The transport ministry has set up a special task force to investigate the root cause of the LRT Ampang/Sri Petaling train derailment that happened yesterday morning near the Chan Sow Lin station.
Prasarana – the operator of Rapid KL trains – will not be part of this independent task force, which will be led by Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) Malaysia chief inspector Brigadier General Tan Chee Kee. Tan was introduced as the task force lead by transport minister Anthony Loke when he visited the site of the train derailment this morning. The other members will be announced at a later date.
The involvement of an AAIB chief inspector (pictured above next to Loke) shows that the MoT is not taking this investigation lightly, and Loke said that “although there were no injuries, this is a very serious incident as train derailment can bring very high risk”.
“We’re very lucky that the train has just started moving (from the Chan Sow Lin station) and had yet to reach maximum speed when it derailed in the process of switching tracks outside of the station,” he added.
The task force is being given 30 days to submit its findings to the cabinet, and Loke declared that the report will also be made public for the sake of transparency. “We want to ensure the investigation is carried out without any conflict of interest so the public can trust the findings. Whether it was human error, a system glitch or system failure, that needs to be identified,” he told the media this morning.
While the investigation will examine Prasarana’s maintenance track record and SOPs, Loke said that the point was not to ‘apportion blame’ but to find the root cause of the matter. Separately, the Land Public Transport Agency (APAD) has initiated its own investigation into the case.
The LRT Ampang/Sri Petaling Line is expected to be fully operational by next Wednesday (June 3), in time for the start of a short working week for Klang Valley residents. Prasarana will be hard at work over the long weekend as the stranded train will have to be removed by a special crane, before repair works on the track can start.
For now, the LRT Chan Sow Lin station is still operational although trains from Sentul Timur (KL city) will turn back at Pudu and trains from Putra Heights will turn back at Bandar Tasik Selatan. To continue their journey, passengers will have to disembark and get on shuttle trains that are bridging the gap, stopping at neighbouring stations and Chan Sow Lin platforms that are unaffected by the stranded train.
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PM & TM represent the Malaysian govt who is the shareholder of Prasarana, and you can’t fire the shareholder.
Type M sleeping on the job, type C resign? Tak tahu malu, malas, completely zero sense of ownership. People keep comparing to Japanese ir South Korean ministers taking responsibility and resigning, but they failed to realise that Japanese and Koreans citizens are not rent seeking, lazy, corrupted people.
Minister don’t sit in the office of LRT and run the operation of LRT. Asking him to resign doesn’t makes any improvement. it only makes person charged to maintain and operate this service hidden and go about without being responsible.
The key point is firstly, learn from the mistake. there is obviously gap in maintenance and monitoring of the system and infrastructure. Lesson learnt for the rail operator… maybe those experience rail guys in ?KTMB is laughing at this rail operator already which i hope so!
Secondly, minister is responsible to scrutinize the candidate to run this rail operation based on their competency… we don’t have many people in this special field u know.. then do monitoring of their performance and make assessment if there is a change needed.
After giving mandate to this person run and lead the operation, it is time the minister sits with the rakyat and monitor, comment and raise question to this appointed person on the running of the operation.
We do not want a minister who sits with the person appointed and answer to rakyat while the ceo hide in the background without accountability. Even a minister answering on behalf of the appointed person raises 2 questions : firstly is minister defending the appointed person ? secondly the minister not the person running the operation, how much can he know the operation and assess the situation correctly.
it is better for the minister stand outside the organisation charged to be operate and look into this organisation. are they responding correctly!!!
LRT accidental derailment.Countless Kelana Jaya LRT line delays.
KLIA itu apanama..Rail also banyak delay.
Huge loss of uni student lives involving express bus.
Huge loss of lives in army lorry ramped by tipper quarry lorry.
LRT 3 delays.
Puspakom..many black sheep apprehended by MACC.
Tell me why Anthony Loke should take tax Ringgit emoluments and pension.
Coming GE 16..pls let someone with a better track record replace this menteri.
Sebelum Loke, ada ex-menteri transpot yg lagi steady punya.
Ada Ir. Ada juga PhD.
Bila tahun 2021, ada 2 tren Kelana Jaya line LRT langgar, dua ratus tiga belas org sudah cedera.
Tapi ex-menteri ini sudah kebal, tak payah letak jawatan, tak kena pecat.
Kalau u suka, u kasi rekomen.
Negaraku! I missed u Ajibkor! Even if you stole the goddamn money, still not my money!
Anything can happen……………dangerous country!
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You confused Malaysia with war zones like Lebanon & Gaza
Task force findings – Honest accident. No foul play. All follow SOP. Will recommend additional SOPs to improve. Life goes on.
Looking at the number of incidents, I think the minister also lost count how many task force he has formed.
Incompetent pple running the show that y, all follow like cut copy pastes format, so something beyond happened like this train derailed then all drama kick in , unnecessary tasks force, bla bla bla end of the day Rakyat suffers, Rakyat forgot and life goes on , later this mantri cekap this derail Bez of suddenly faulty switch and we replaced switch costs us million million figure , actual switch Costs mite me few hundred
This parasrana management as expected have zero BCP plan Bez all incompetent pple hired ,
Third world trash politician.
Bolehland world trash politician