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Helicopter crash in Borneo, Indonesia, kills eight | World News

A helicopter has crashed in Indonesia, killing all eight people on board. 

The aircraft was flying between palm oil plantations when it crashed in Borneo, an island shared between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei.

The Airbus H130, owned by PT Matthew Air Nusantara, lost contact on Thursday, five minutes after it took off from Melawi district in the island’s interior en-route to Kubu Raya district on its west coast.

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Two crew members and six passengers were on board, but none survived.

Searchers later discovered the wreckage in the dense forests of Sekadau district, West Kalimantan province, and recovered the bodies of the dead.

One of those killed was Malaysian.

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Indonesia has been plagued by air accidents in recent years.

In 2018, a passenger jet crashed into the sea off Indonesia, killing all 189 on board.

Three years later, 62 people were killed when a Boeing 737-500 jet crashed into the Java Sea. There were no survivors.


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