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JAKARTA - THE commander of an airbase on Indonesia's Sumatra island is to be removed from his post after a Singaporean died on board an airforce helicopter that crashed, a report said here on Saturday.
The businessman died in the crash in Riau province last Monday, while another foreigner was severely injured. The helicopter was carrying a crew of four and seven passengers.
'I will remove the commander of the airforce base from his posting,' Airforce Chief Subandrio said according to the Koran Tempo newspaper.
Mr Subandrio said that the commander of the airbase in Riau's capital Pekanbaru, from where the helicopter took off, 'should know that when there are foreign passengers involved, there is a procedure to follow.'
He said that none of the seven civilian passengers on the flight had the required security clearance to fly on board the helicopter.
Mr Subandrio did not say why civilians were on board a routine airforce flight, saying that an investigation was ongoing, but he denied the aircraft was being used commercially.
'I emphasise that no military aircraft are being used commercially,' he said.
The Singaporean victim was chief executive and executive chairman Robert V. Chandran of listed company Chemoil, while the injured foreigner was Terence Gidlow, Chemoil's vice-president of business development, the company said.
The helicopter crashed in heavy rain. -- AFP
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