Indonesian firefighting helicopter crash in Borneo kills 1

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 for the national disaster mitigation agency, said earlier on Sunday. Further details of their condition were not immediately available.