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    Missing Plane found in Borneo

    Update
    What: Cessna
    Where: Borneo Kalimantan, Indonesia
    When: August 24, 2012
    Who: 4 aboard
    Why: Four passengers who had been on a chartered Cessna have been found on Borneo Island, in Kutai National Park at the wreckage site in a mountainous area. There were no survivors.

    The remains of Australian Peter John Elliott and three Indonesianshave been flown to a Samarinda hospital.

    The flight left Samarinda to survey a coal mining site. Elliot was a specialist in using geophysics equipment, and general manager of Elliott Geophysics International.

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    Twelve Fatalities in Royal Brunei Air Force Helicopter Crash

    What: Royal Brunei Air Force Bell 212 helicopter en route to Bandar Seri Begawan
    Where: Brunei, Borneo
    When: July 21,2012
    Who: 11 passengers, 3 crew
    Why: Twelve died in the crash in Kuala Belait on the north coast of Borneo island. Two cadets survived and have been hospitalized. They are reported to be in stable condition, one with afractured arm and an injured leg, and the other having undergone surgery.