Singapore Lianhe Zaobao reported that aIndonesia A helicopter fighting the wildfire crashed into a river while delivering water at noon on the 8th, officials told AFP. There were three crew members on board the ship at the time, two of whom wereAustralia The Indonesian crew were rescued, but one Indonesian crew member was missing.
The accident occurred in South Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Earlier, on the 4th, a military helicopter crashed into the waters off Borneo, killing three people.
Panjatan, a spokesman for Indonesia’s National Disaster Prevention and Control Agency, said two Australian crew members were rescued from the crash that day, while the whereabouts of the other Indonesian crew member were still unknown.
A video showed that after the helicopter involved in the firefighting efforts took on water from the Barito River, its fuselage slowly tilted downwards, and eventually fell nose-down into the water.
“An amateur video shows the helicopter losing control after using a bucket to fetch water from the river,” Panjatan said.
He said the crashed helicopter was an EC225LP Super Puma helicopter manufactured by Eurocopter.
Wildfires in Indonesia have burned more than 1.9 million hectares of land, according to data from Nusantara Atlas, a deforestation monitoring organization.
