Kapal TLDM, KD Mutiara terbakar.. Tony Pua taknak salahkan kerajaan ke?

Sebuah lagi kapal TLDM telah terbakar. Kali ini ialah KD Mutiara yang sedang dalam proses baik pulih di Johor.

KD Mutiara adalah merupakan kapal TLDM yang sudah pun berusia 35 tahun yang digunakan untuk tujuan pengukuran Hidrografi dan Oseanografi.

Sebelum ini kapal TLDM KD Pari telah hampir tenggelam di Sabah, KD Serang pula mengalami kebakaran kecil manakala KD Todak pula telah mengalami kerosakan.

Di samping itu negara kehilangan kapal pengangkut KD Sri Inderapura dalam satu kebakaran pada tahun 2009.

Sebelum ni, Pakatan selalu menuntut kerajaan menjelaskan sebab berlakunya peningkatan kos 50 peratus atau RM3 bilion dalam pembelian enam kapal baru untuk tentera laut daripada RM6 bilion kepada RM9 bilion.

Jawapannya ialah, kena beli kapal baru la sebab kapal yang ada semua dah lama.. Itu pun nak cerita lagi ke? Bodoh punya Pakatan.

PASIR GUDANG: A fire broke out onboard a 35-year-old Royal Malaysian Navy's survey vessel which was undergoing repairs at the Malaysian Marine Heavy Engineering shipyard here last night.

KD Mutiara, which is one of the two ships under the navy's National Hydrographic Centre, is believed to have suffered extensive damage. However, no casualty was reported.

A spokesman for the Johor Baru Fire and Rescue Department said they received a call at 8pm. As at press time, the firefighters were still trying to put out the blaze.

Seven fire engines from several stations in the vicinity were rushed to the scene.

It is learnt that workers were carrying out welding works on the ship when the incident occurred.

The ship, measuring 71m in length and 13m in width, was commissioned to the naval fleet in 1977, to carry out mapping work and general oceanography.

KD Mutiara is equipped with digital data gathering and processing systems, modern acoustic sensors and differential satellite position-fixing systems.