MIRI: A Sikorsky-type helicopter belonging to a logging company based here crashed deep in the jungle near Long Pelutan, Baram, yesterday, killing its American pilot, police said.
Another American, believed to be the co-pilot of the ill-fated aircraft, suffered injuries in the incident at about 5.30pm near a logging camp set up at the rural settlement about 50 nautical miles southeast of here.
Marudi OCPD DSP Abu Bakar Mokthar said the surviving crewman had been sent to a private hospital in Miri and that the extent of his injuries had yet to be known.
The body of the pilot was still in the wreckage, he said.
A police team had been deployed to the site to retrieve the body and to carry out investigation, he added.
Other than by chartered helicopter, which takes about an hour of flight from Miri, Long Pelutan can only be reached from here via a logging road with a travel time of about 10 hours.
- Bernama
Another American, believed to be the co-pilot of the ill-fated aircraft, suffered injuries in the incident at about 5.30pm near a logging camp set up at the rural settlement about 50 nautical miles southeast of here.
Marudi OCPD DSP Abu Bakar Mokthar said the surviving crewman had been sent to a private hospital in Miri and that the extent of his injuries had yet to be known.
The body of the pilot was still in the wreckage, he said.
A police team had been deployed to the site to retrieve the body and to carry out investigation, he added.
Other than by chartered helicopter, which takes about an hour of flight from Miri, Long Pelutan can only be reached from here via a logging road with a travel time of about 10 hours.
- Bernama
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