11 bodies found after crash

11 bodies found after crash

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Rescuers said yesterday that they had found the bodies of all 11 Malaysian air force men who perished when two helicopters crashed in Sabah state two days ago.

Seven bodies were winched up from the hilly crash site in the east Malaysian state and flown directly to a hospital on nearby Labuan island, Bernama news agency quoted a spokesman for the rescue mission as saying.

The wreckage of the two US-made Sikorsky helicopters which crashed Tuesday in a deep ravine on Borneo island, some 1,700 kilometers (1,056 miles) east of Kuala Lumpur, were found 4.8 kilometers away from each other.

Tuesday's crash was the country's third air tragedy this month. On March 3, Malaysian auto king Yahaya Ahmad, his wife and their pilot were killed when their Italian-made Agusta helicopter crashed in the central state of Pahang.