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All eight people on board a helicopter were killed when it crashed in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province, authorities said on Friday (April 17) as search teams tried to retrieve the bodies and wreckage.

Among the victims was a Malaysian national who has yet to be identified.

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00:01Video from Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency showed rescuers retrieving a body while conducting recovery operations after a helicopter
00:10crashed in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province on Thursday.
00:13All eight men on board the Airbus H-130 helicopter were killed, including a Malaysian national, authorities said on Friday.
00:22The helicopter lost contact on Thursday morning, five minutes after taking off from a plantation area in Malawi.
00:28Rescuers had found debris suspected to be the tail of the helicopter, approximately three kilometers west of where contact was
00:35lost.
00:36The cause of the crash remains unclear.
00:39Rescuers, including military and police personnel, were trying to reach the crash site via land routes on Friday.
00:45The plantation area was owned by an Indonesian palm oil company, Citramakota, and the helicopter belonged to Matthew Air Nusantara.
01:04The
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