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Indonesian firefighting helicopter crash in Borneo kills 1

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Sunday, November 8, 2026 at 2:37 PM · 1 min read
Indonesian firefighting helicopter crash in Borneo kills 1 — Bangkok Business news

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...

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