KOTA KINABALU: Datin Jikilin Binion had almost given up on finding out what exactly happened to the plane that crashed in Sembulan near here, killing her husband.
After 46 years of waiting and hoping, the 88-year-old widow of the late state assistant minister Datuk Darius Binion, who perished in the “Double Six” crash, will finally know the answer.
"I was in the kitchen doing my chores when I heard this on the radio. I immediately stopped what I was doing and sat down to listen clearer," said Jikilin who never remarried. "I felt like the first time when I got the bad news back then but this time, it is for something I have been praying and hoping for so long and there was a time I even lost hope of ever finding out.
She said after the crash on June 6, 1976, she had waited for the day when someone could give her and her family the answer as to what exactly happened, but her wait turned from months to years, to decades.
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