This is the latest update on the SAF Overseas Incident.

13 May 2007: The remains of the late Private (PTE) Fan Yao Jin were brought back to Singapore at 11:18 am today (13 May 2007). The funeral will be held at the Bright Hill Crematorium on 15 May 2007. The late PTE Fan will be accorded a full military funeral.

For those who have not been kept up to date on happenings, briefly here’s the sequence of events.

1. 11 May 2007: At 9:25 am, a Taiwan Air Force F5F aircraft crashed into a storeroom located within a Taiwanese military facility, resulting in a fire at the storeroom. Some Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) personnel, including Full-Time National Servicemen (NSF), were present in the storeroom at that time of the incident.

   Two SAF servicemen are injured and are being treated in hospital. Seven others have minor injuries. Two bodies have been found and their identities are being verified. The next of kin of the affected servicemen have been informed.

   The rest of the SAF personnel in Taiwan are safe and accounted for.

2. 12 May 2007: The remains of the late 3rd Sergeant (3SG) Isz Sazli Bin Sapari were brought back to Singapore by a RSAF C-130 aircraft at 3:15 pm. He will be accorded a full military funeral at the Pusara Abadi Cemetery in Lim Chu Kang this evening at 5:15 pm.

   

   Separately, arrangements are underway to transport the remains of the late Private (PTE) Fan Yao Jin back to Singapore tomorrow after the completion of religious rites as requested by his family. The late PTE Fan will also be accorded a full military funeral.

   The two Full-time National Servicemen, 3rd Sergeant (3SG) Ramakrishnan Karthigayan, 23 and Lance Corporal (LCP) Chow Han Min, Calvin, 19 were brought back to Singapore by a RSAF KC-135 aircraft specially equipped for medical evacuation. The aircraft arrived at Changi Air Base at 5:28 pm.

   

   Minister for Defence Mr Teo Chee Hean visited both servicemen at the hospital this evening.

   View All Pictures of Injured SAF Servicemen Flown Back to Singapore.

3. 13 May 2007: The remains of the late Private (PTE) Fan Yao Jin were brought back to Singapore at 11:18 am today. The funeral will be held at the Bright Hill Crematorium on 15 May 2007. The late PTE Fan will be accorded a full military funeral.

If you have broadband internet connection, you want to catch short 1 min Videos Clips of Injured SAF Servicemen Flown Back to Singapore and Transfer of Injured Servicemen to SGH Burns Intensive Care Unit.

#Disclaimer - Source from Mindef News Release.

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