{"id":1086,"date":"2026-04-17T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:03:00","slug":"eight-dead-in-a-private-helicopter-crash-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Eight dead in a private helicopter crash in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two pilots and all six passengers were killed when <b>a private <b><a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/elikoptero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helicopter <\/b>crashed<\/a> on Indonesia&#8217;s Borneo Island, the country&#8217;s transport ministry said today.<\/p>\n<p>Contact between the helicopter &#8211;<b>built by Airbus, owned by local company Matthew Air Nusantara<\/b>&#8211; and air traffic controllers was lost five minutes after it took off from West Kalimantan province yesterday Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It was carrying eight men, including a Malaysian national, said Civil Aviation Authority director general Lukman F. Laissea.<\/p>\n<p>At present,<b>no explanation has been given for the cause of the disaster<\/b>. &#8220;All the passengers and crew members passed away, based on our information from the field,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue crews located the victims last night in an area covered by dense forest with steep slopes, a search and rescue agency official said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Indonesia, a vast southeast Asian archipelago, relies heavily on air transport to connect its thousands of islands. <\/b>But the country does not get a particularly good grade in air transport safety: several fatal accidents have occurred in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>In January, an aircraft chartered by the Ministry of Fisheries crashed in a mountainous area, killing all ten people on board. In September 2025, a helicopter that was also carrying six passengers and had two pilots crashed in South Kalimantan province. No one survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two pilots and all six passengers were killed when a private helicopter crashed on Indonesia&#8217;s Borneo island, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}