On 8 July 1957, a de Havilland Venom operated by the 60 Squadron Royal Air Force crashed after departure from Tengah Air Base into a building block and exploded.

On 8 July 1957, a de Havilland DH.112 Venom FB.MK 1 operated by the 60 Squadron Royal Air Force on a training flight,[1] crashed after departure from Tengah Air Base.

After hitting with a wing the ground, the jet crashed into a two-storey housing block.

On the ground, two women and a fifteen-year-old child who lived in the housing block died.

In this accident, a firefighter and a bystander were killed after colliding with a truck about one mile from the Air Base.