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How my grandpa’s death by Tengah plane crash fits into Singapore’s history
In search of missing family history, the writer discovers snapshots of a Singapore that existed before her birth.
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Mr Chong See Wee died in 1970 when a plane from Tengah Air Base crashed into his farm.
PHOTOS: ST FILE, COURTESY OF CHANG MAY CHOON
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My paternal grandfather died in a plane crash, but not in the way you’d imagine it.
During the kampung days of the 1970s, before I was born, his life came to an abrupt end when a military aircraft from Tengah Air Base crashed onto his farm nearby, setting his house ablaze.
