Crew member missing as Indonesian water-bombing helicopter crashes
- JAKARTA: A helicopter battling Indonesian wildfires crashed into a river on Sunday (Nov 8) as it scooped water, an official told AFP, with two crew members rescued and one still missing.
- The crash in Borneo Island's South Kalimantan province was the second in days involving a firefighting helicopter, after a military chopper plunged into the waters off Borneo on Wednesday, killing three people.
- Two Australian nationals had survived Sunday's incident and were "safe", said Berton Panjaitan, a spokesman for the national disaster mitigation agency, while the third member of the crew, an Indonesian,
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- JAKARTA: A helicopter battling Indonesian wildfires crashed into a river on Sunday (Nov 8) as it scooped water, an official told AFP, with two crew members rescued and one still missing.
- The crash in Borneo Island's South Kalimantan province was the second in days involving a firefighting helicopter, after a military chopper plunged into the waters off Borneo on Wednesday, killing three people.
- Two Australian nationals had survived Sunday's incident and were "safe", said Berton Panjaitan, a spokesman for the national disaster mitigation agency, while the third member of the crew, an Indonesian,
Sources: CNA