A man was found alive two days after a helicopter crashed into a large lake in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, local television reported Tuesday.
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Heronimus Guru, the deputy operation director at the National Search and Rescue Agency, said Fransiskus Subihardayan, 22, was found floating naked on Tuesday afternoon about 2 miles from Samosir Island.
He was reportedly clinging to floating plants in a lake.
Search teams are still hunting for the wreckage of the missing aircraft and the other passengers and crew.
The single-engine light Eurocopter EC-130 crashed during an hour-long flight from Samosir Island to Medan city.
TEMPO.CO, Medan-The search for the helicopter that lost contact en route from Siparmahan Sihotang Village, Harian Boho Subdistrict, to Kualanamu Airport, was continued Monday morning, October 12.
An Indonesian chopper carrying five people on Sunday (Oct 11) lost contact with air traffic control during a flight on Sumatra island, an official said, in the latest blow to the country’s troubled aviation sector, according to channel News Asia.
“He was found very weak and immediately rushed to hospital”.
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Another plane crashed on a remote mountain in Oksibil Papua in August, killing all 54 people onboard. “Maybe he can tell more when he is strong enough”, another agency official, Hisar Turnip, told the BBC.
