- Eight people died after an Airbus H130 helicopter crashed on Borneo Island, Indonesian officials confirmed on Friday.
- The helicopter, operated by PT Matthew Air Nusantara, lost contact five minutes after departing from the Melawi district in West Kalimantan province.
- It was en route to another palm oil plantation in the Kubu Raya district when the incident occurred.
- Search teams later located the wreckage and recovered the bodies of two crew members and six passengers from dense forests in the Sekadau district.
- Authorities confirmed the fatalities, noting that one of the victims was Malaysian, amidst Indonesia's history of frequent transportation accidents.
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