Kuala Lampur, March 22 -- The pilot of a jet, which ran into a car on the tarmac of Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport and seriously injured an airport worker, has claimed that he was cleared to land on Monday morning.

In an interview with The Star, Capt Muhammad Fauwaz Zamzam, who had piloted the Bombardier Challenger 300, also said that no notice was issued for maintenance work during the incident, and that there were no lights on the tarmac besides the airport guiding lights and boundary markers.

The Malaysia Airports Holding Berhad (MAHB) employee, 39-year-old Mohd Ruzaimi Iskandar Ahmad Razali, died on Tuesday after sustaining critical injuries when the descending Berjaya Air private jet crashed into the maintenance vehicle that he was...