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Four rescued after Malaysian Coast Guard helicopter crash

Agence France-Presse · Mar 5, 2024, 2:06 PM

A Royal Malaysian Police helicopter flies over as rescue team continues to search for the missing 15-year-old Franco-Irish teenager Nora Quoirin in Seremban on 11 August 2019. Quoirin, who lives in London, went missing on 4 August after checking in with her family to the Dusun Resort in Seremban, about an hour from the capital Kuala Lumpur. The family believe she was abducted, but police have classified it as a missing person case. — Fuad Nizam / AFP

Four people were rescued after a Malaysian coast guard helicopter crashed in the Strait of Malacca, on Tuesday, the aviation regulator said.

The helicopter was on a training flight when it plunged into water near Angsa Island, the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia said without giving a cause.

"A total of four persons including pilots were onboard and there were no fatalities reported. All survivors were rescued by a rescue helicopter," it said.

Angsa is a rocky island in the Strait of Malacca, a narrow shipping lane which runs between the Indonesian island of Sumatra and Malaysia.

The coast guard in a separate statement said it will launch an investigation into the cause of the crash.