From News Ltd. Web site -
"State spent $2m rescuing suspected drug runners
TWO sailors allegedly caught on board a yacht packed with a record drug cargo had been saved three months earlier from a sinking boat in a multimillion-dollar taxpayer-funded rescue off Queensland's central coast.
The April rescue cost the State Government at least $2million after one of its helicopters crashed into the sea trying to pluck the two Malaysian nationals from a stricken yacht on Swain Reefs, 200km off Rockhampton."
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