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A helicopter flying between palm oil plantations on Borneo Island crashed, killing the eight people on board, Indonesian officials said on Friday.
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The Airbus H130 owned by PT Matthew Air Nusantara lost contact on Thursday, five minutes after it took off from Melawi district in West Kalimantan province. It was on its way to another palm oil plantation in the Kubu Raya district.
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Searchers later located the wreckage and recovered the bodies of the two crew members and six passengers in the dense forests in Sekadau district, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency and the Transportation Ministry. One of those killed was Malaysian.
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Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of about 270 million people, has been plagued by transportation accidents, including plane and helicopter crashes and ferry sinkings.
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8 killed in Indonesia helicopter crash

News Arena Network - Jakarta - UPDATED: April 17, 2026, 04:29 PM - 2 min read

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