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sycrash18b - Wreckage from the aircraft's tail Credit: Dr Tan Peng Hui

Wreckage from the aircraft's tail. The crash was forensic dentist Tan Peng Hui’s first time responding to a mass disaster.

PHOTO: TAN PENG HUI

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SINGAPORE - The crash was forensic dentist Tan Peng Hui’s first time responding to a mass disaster.

The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) dental officer, who retired as a colonel in 2011, would go on to serve the SAF in several overseas missions, including tsunami relief operations in Phuket in 2004.

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