Indonesian firefighting helicopter crash in Borneo kills 1

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A firefighting helicopter crashed into a river in South Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, killing one crew member while collecting water for an aerial firefighting drop. Two Australian pilots survived; the accident follows another fatal military helicopter crash off Borneo earlier in the week.

A crew member of a helicopter battling Indonesian wildfires was killed on Sunday when the aircraft crashed into a river as it scooped up water for an airborne drop, a local disaster agency said. The crash in Borneo Island’s South Kalimantan province was the second in days involving a firefighting aircraft, after a military helicopter plunged into the waters off Borneo on Wednesday, killing three people. Two Australian pilots survived Sunday’s crash and were “safe”, Berton Panjaitan, a spokesman...