Six missing chopper passengers found

Six missing chopper passengers found

MALAYSIA: All six people aboard a helicopter that disappeared
during a storm while flying over thick jungle in Malaysia's part
of Borneo island were found on Tuesday, a charter company
official said.

The six were sheltering in a traditional longhouse in a
village near the Malaysia-Indonesia border in eastern Sarawak
state, Aidan Wing of Hornbill Skyways was cited as saying by the
national news agency, Bernama.

It was not immediately clear if those on board survived a
crash landing, or if the helicopter set down safely to avoid the
storm.

Earlier on Tuesday, officials said the air force and police
were searching heavily forested highlands on Borneo island on
Tuesday for the helicopter, which went missing on Monday
afternoon shortly after taking off from the remote mountain
settlement of Bario, at 1,000 meters above sea level, in Sarawak.
-- AP