Chinese billionaire feared dead in France helicopter crash

Rescue workers and divers discuss during a rescue operation at the site of a helicopter crash in the Dordogne river in which a Chinese billionaire, his son, and the French former owner of the Chateau de La Riviere disappeared, on December 20, 2013, near Lugon. - AFP

BORDEAUX (AFP) - Four people were feared dead Saturday including a Chinese billionaire and his 12-year-old son after the helicopter in which he was overflying his newly purchased French vineyard crashed into a river.

Lam Kok, the 46-year-old head of the Hong Kong-based Brilliant group, had just bought a major Bordeaux vineyard in a sale accompanied by great fanfare and was surveying his new property in a helicopter piloted by the former owner when the accident happened Friday.