Penang 1972 archive footage

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting Southeastern Asia in 1972
It contains stock footage of Penang, a city in Malaysia: passengers leaving the aircraft at the airport of Pulau Pinang (Penang International Airport), Eng Chuan Tong Tan Kongsi clan house on Beach Street in George Town, Khoo Kongsi Clan Temple, Kek Lok Si Temple, guests waiting outside Hotel Merlin, traffic in the streets, and more.
Maybe not everybody knows that the Malaysia-Singapore Airlines (MSA) you can watch on the video ceased operations on September 30, 1972. At 0:06, there's a Fokker F-27-500 Friendship (built in 1971 reg. # 9M-APU (from April 15, 1971 to October 1, 1972) that was then transferred to New Zealand in 1978 under new reg. # ZK-NFC and lived a short aviation life, as it crashed on February 17, 1979 while landing in the Manukau Harbor (2 dead out of 4 on board).
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[@hseochin]

Am quite impressed to see in 1:10 they have Mercedes-Benz 319 type integral panel van even as far back as 1972 ! Indeed looks 'original' from the viewing angle in this video so reason to doubt that. Impressed because in the later years the 'standard' went down & what became common tended to be only in chassi-form with the original front cowl in the form of the O 309 or 709 type with all unsightly looking 'local rubbish' bodywork completion which were widely used as midibuses.

[@RadugaTVfolkfest]

*Malaysia-Singapore Airlines (MSA)* ceased operations on September 30, 1972 (today is the "golden anniversary" of this event). 🎂 0:06 This _Fokker F-27-500 Friendship_ (built in 1971 under construction # 10456; reg. # *9M-APU* had since April 15, 1971 to October 1, 1972) was transferred to New Zealand in 1978 under new reg. # ZK-NFC and lived a short aviation life: crashed on February 17, 1979 while landing in the Manukau harbour (2 dead out of 4 on board).

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Thanks! I've add the information.

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