Basarnas on October 20 announced an end to its search for the Eurocopter EC-130(Photo:tempo.com) The Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) on October 20 announced an end to its search for the Eurocopter EC-130, which fell into Toba Lake in Sumatra province on October 11.
According to General Ahmad Ivan Titus, who was leading the mission, the search has been carried out for 10 days in accordance with the operational standards and there were no new developments after one passenger was found alive.
Basarnas will maintain a small team that will continue to observe the site and update the public on any new information, he added.
The Eurocopter EC130 helicopter, which had five people on board – two crew members and three passengers – lost communication with North Sumatra air traffic control in the afternoon of October 11 while it was travelling from Samosir Island to Kualanamu Airport in Medan, the capital city of North Sumatra.-VNA
