KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — A helicopter carrying 10 oil rig workers and two pilots crashed in the South China Sea offshore Bintulu in Malaysia’s eastern state of Sarawak on Tuesday afternoon.
The website of Malaysia’s English-language newspaper The Star said that nine of the workers had found alive, one was missing, while the fate of the pilots remained unknown so far.
Sarawak Shell had dispatched a search and rescue team to the spot where the incident took place.
www.chinaview.cn 2007-01-30 19:29:57