DCA told about crash four hours later

KOTA KINABALU: The Department of Civil Aviation was only informed about four hours after a Hornbill Skyways helicopter went missing in the triangular hilly jungle border highlands of Sarawak, Kalimantan and Sabah. 

This delay in informing DCA was nothing unusual as it is the habit of helicopter passengers flying from Miri to Bario or Bakelalan near where the helicopter went missing on Monday afternoon to make unscheduled stops and they need not inform the DCA as the zone was classified as “uncontrolled airspace.”