SIBU - Majlis Islam Sarawak (MIS) mengarahkan semua masjid dan surau yang mengadakan solat Jumaat di seluruh Sarawak untuk melaksanakan Solat Hajat Bencana Banjir selepas solat fardu Jumaat hari ini.

Solat ini bertujuan memohon kesejahteraan mangsa banjir serta agar bencana tersebut segera diangkat.

Arahan itu dikeluarkan melalui satu pekeliling bertarikh semalam yang ditandatangani oleh Setiausaha MIS Mual Suaud, dan diedarkan kepada semua pengerusi Lembaga Amanah Kebajikan serta Jawatankuasa Pengurusan Masjid dan Surau di seluruh Sarawak.

Pekeliling tersebut menyatakan bahawa Majlis Islam Sarawak menzahirkan keprihatinan mendalam terhadap bencana banjir yang sedang melanda Sarawak, khususnya di Bahagian Serian, Bintulu, dan Miri, yang telah menjejaskan kehidupan penduduk serta menyebabkan kerosakan harta benda.

Setakat pagi Jumaat, Sekretariat Jawatankuasa Pengurusan Bencana Sarawak melaporkan bahawa jumlah mangsa banjir di negeri itu meningkat kepada 9,398 orang daripada 2,725 keluarga.

Daerah Bintulu mencatatkan jumlah mangsa tertinggi, iaitu 4,021 orang daripada 1,090 keluarga yang berlindung di enam pusat pemindahan sementara (PPS), diikuti daerah Serian dengan 1,886 mangsa daripada 602 keluarga yang ditempatkan di 15 PPS. - Bernama

SERIAN: Laluan di empat lokasi sepanjang Lebuhraya Pan Borneo dinaiki air susulan hujan berterusan sejak Isnin lalu.

Bagaimanapun, kesemua laluan yang dinaiki air itu masih dapat dilalui oleh semua jenis kenderaan.

Menteri Kerja Raya, Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi berkata, daripada empat lokasi tersebut, laluan di Kilometer (KM) 187 Jalan Serian-Sri Aman paling terjejas dengan paras air mencecah sehingga 0.5 meter.

“Lebuhraya Pan Borneo ini direka bentuk untuk menangani masalah banjir, namun berkemungkinan di sesetengah tempat terjejas akibat limpahan sungai atau sistem peparitan berdekatan.

“Situasi ini secara tidak langsung boleh menyebabkan beberapa laluan terjejas banjir seperti di sini (KM187 Jalan Serian-Sri Aman), namun ia tidak membawa kepada risiko runtuh atau terputus,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika ditemui selepas melakukan lawatan ke laluan di Lebuhraya Pan Borneo yang terjejas akibat banjir di Serian.

Laluan lain yang turut terjejas termasuk di KM524 di laluan Selangau-Bintulu, KM818.4 berdekatan Simpang Jalan Bakun, dan KM938 di Seksyen Lebuhraya Pan Borneo di Pujut, Miri.

Menurut Alexander, ketika ini tiada laporan kerosakan di semua laluan yang terjejas, namun pemantauan rapi terus dilakukan di kawasan-kawasan terbabit.

Ia bagi memastikan tiada sebarang kejadian tidak diingini berlaku serta menjamin tahap keselamatan pengguna jalan raya.

KUALA LUMPUR: Semua jentera dan kakitangan berkaitan bagi membantu mangsa banjir sudah dikerah ke Sabah dan Sarawak selepas dua negeri itu mengalami banjir buruk sejak kelmarin.

Ketua Pengarah Agensi Pengurusan Bencana Negara (NADMA), Datuk Khairul Shahril Idrus, berkata pihaknya turut menjalinkan kerjasama dengan badan bukan kerajaan (NGO) tempatan bagi membantu mangsa banjir serta memindahkan aset dan bantuan dari kawasan tidak terjejas ke kawasan bencana.

“NADMA sentiasa berkomunikasi rapat dengan semua pihak dan kerajaan negeri melalui Jawatankuasa Pengurusan Bencana Negeri yang dipengerusikan oleh Timbalan Premier Sarawak, Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas.

“Kita memang sentiasa bersedia dan membuat persediaan awal selepas arahan dikeluarkan sebelum Monsun Timur Laut (MTL) oleh Jawatankuasa Pengurusan Bencana Pusat.

“Buat masa ini semua jentera sudah dikerahkan dan pergerakan aset di lapangan akan dibuat berdasarkan keperluan semasa,” katanya kepada BH, hari ini.

Semalam, Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mengarahkan pihak berkaitan termasuk NADMA untuk memperkukuh jentera dan koordinasi berikutan situasi banjir di Sabah dan Sarawak yang semakin memburuk.
Anwar berkata, keutamaan ketika ini adalah kebajikan mangsa banjir serta keselamatan penduduk di kawasan terkesan.

Mengikut Info Bencana Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat (JKM), setakat jam 12 tengah hari ini sebanyak 7,557 mangsa berada 76 pusat pemindahan sementara (PPS) di Sabah dan Sarawak.

Di Sarawak sebanyak enam daerah terbabit banjir membabitkan 2,904 mangsa sementara di Sabah terdapat 10 daerah menghadapi banjir yang kini mempunyai 4,653 mangsa.

SEOUL: Both engines of the Jeju Air plane that crashed last month contained duck remains, according to a preliminary report on Monday, with authorities still trying to determine what caused the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil.

Although it is rare for such preliminary reports to go beyond factual details, the report gave no indication about what might have led the aircraft to land far down the runway without its landing gear deployed, highlighting the lack of immediate clues after the plane's black boxes stopped recording four minutes before impact.

The six-page report released by South Korean authorities a month after the crash said both engines of the Boeing 737-800 jet contained DNA from Baikal Teals, a type of migratory duck that flies to South Korea for winter in huge flocks.

Experts say air accidents are nearly always caused by a cocktail of factors.

The Jeju Air flight from Bangkok on Dec 29 overshot Muan Airport's runway as it made an emergency belly landing and crashed into an embankment containing navigation equipment, called localisers, killing all but two of the 181 people and crew members on board.

"After the crash into the embankment, fire and a partial explosion occurred. Both engines were buried in the embankment's soil mound, and the fore fuselage scattered up to 30-200 meters from the embankment," the report said, providing some new pictures of the accident site.

The localiser aids navigation of an aircraft making an approach to the runway, and the structure built of reinforced concrete and earth at Muan airport supporting the system's antennae likely contributed to the high death toll, experts have said.

The investigation will dismantle the engines, examine components in depth, analyse in-flight and air traffic control data, and investigate the embankment, localisers and evidence of bird strike, the report said about its next steps.

"These all-out investigation activities aim to determine the accurate cause of the accident," it said.

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The report highlighted much of the initial findings by the South Korean investigators that were shared with victims' families on Saturday, including the pilots' awareness of a flock of birds on the plane's final approach.

The exact time the bird strike was reported by the pilots remains unconfirmed, the accident report said, but the aircraft "made an emergency declaration (Mayday x 3) for a bird strike during a go-around."

Bird strikes that cause damage to both engines are rare, though there have been successful cases of pilots landing without fatalities in such situations including the "Miracle on the Hudson" river landing in the US in 2009 and a cornfield landing in Russia in 2019.

Investigators usually piece together the final moments before a disaster by carefully synchronising voice and data recordings to understand how the crew and airplane interacted.

But these vital clues are not available for the Jeju Air crash because the recorders stopped recording just before the pilots declared the emergency and about four minutes before impact.

The aircraft was at an altitude of 498 feet (152 metres) flying at 161 knots (298km/h or 185 mph) about 1.1 nautical miles (2km or 1.3 miles) from the runway at the moment the flight recorders stopped recording, the report said.

Since 2010 new US-built planes have had to have enough backup power to provide 10 minutes of extra data recording should onboard electrical power fail, following a series of incidents where recorders stopped working.

However, the change came eight months after the 737-800 involved in the Jeju crash appears to have left the Boeing factory, according to data from FlightRadar24.

South Korea's Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board has shared its report with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Thailand, and the United States and France, which are the home states for the plane and engine manufacturers, an official said on Monday.

Under global aviation guidelines, investigators issue preliminary reports after 30 days and a final report is expected within a year.