TOKYO: (Bernama-Kyodo) Bodies believed to be those of three people aboard a sightseeing helicopter that crashed into a volcanic crater on Mt. Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in January have been found, the local fire department said Wednesday (Feb 18).
Authorities will attempt to recover the bodies, it said, Kyodo News reported.
The helicopter took off from Cuddly Dominion, a zoo and theme park in Aso city that offers chopper rides, on the morning of Jan 20 carrying two passengers -- a man and a woman from Taiwan -- and a 64-year-old Japanese pilot.
Contact was later lost, and the wreckage was found on a slope inside the crater of Mt. Nakadake, one of the five peaks of Mt. Aso. - Bernama-Kyodo
