US EditionSightseeing helicopter carrying three people goes missing in Kumamoto
Rescue efforts at Mount Aso are delayed by volcanic gas, fog, and rough terrain after a Robinson R44 helicopter with two Taiwanese tourists crashed, officials said.
- On Jan 20, a sightseeing helicopter carrying two passengers from Taiwan and a 64-year-old Japanese pilot went missing near a volcanic crater on Mount Aso, Kumamoto prefecture.
- On the operator's schedule, Takumi Enterprise said the third sightseeing flight showed no abnormalities and the pilot had more than 40 years' experience.
- The helicopter left Aso Cuddly Dominion at 10.52am, contact was lost about 10 minutes later, and an object resembling the helicopter's body was found shortly after 4pm on Mount Nakadake.
- The whereabouts of the three people remain unknown as searches continue, and local government in Kumamoto has contacted a Taiwanese organisation in Fukuoka given the two passengers were travellers.
- Mount Aso's volcanic landscape attracts tourism like Aso Cuddly Dominion's panoramic helicopter rides, though cloudy conditions that morning made Mount Nakadake hard to see, complicating flights near the crater.
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