All six passengers including an senior official on board Hornbill Skyways helicopter which was reported missing in Sarawak state on Monday are confirmed to be alive.

The survivors including Assistant Minister in the State's ChiefMinister's Office, Judson Ski Gal, were now at a long house at PakRumpai in Limbang area near the Malaysian-Indonesian border, Horn bill Skyway s's executive director Ada Wing told Malaysia NationalNews Agency when contacted in Mimi, northern town in the state Tuesday.

The helicopter, owned by Horn bill Sky ways was on its way fromBario in Miri to Ba' Kelalan in Limbang when it lost contact with air traffic control at about 12:30 P.M. on Monday.

A spokesman at the State Civil Aviation Department operations room said an investigation team had gone to the crash site near the Apo Duat mountain range that separates Sarawak from Kalimantan.

He said that the department received an initial report Monday evening that villagers near Pa Lungan, about four hours on foot from Ba'Kelalan, had seen the helicopter went down in the nearby valley.

Souirce: Xinhua