A police helicopter prepares to take off - part of an ongoing search and rescue mission.<br/> Indonesian authorities are searching for over 200 people missing after an overcrowded boat packed with illegal immigrants sank off the coast of east Java.<br/> Many of the passengers on the wooden vessel are believed to be economic migrants from the Middle East.<br/> Authorities say over 70 people have been rescued.<br/> One of the survivors though said that only around 30 people in his group had made it out alive.<br/> (SOUNDBITE) (English) SURVIVOR, NOROZ YOUSEFI:<br/> "We already 250 or 260 and all of them is dead. Up to now they did not find anybody. Only the fishing man, he saw us, and saved only 30 person."<br/> The boat was en route to Australia when it sank.<br/> The sinking is the latest of several such disasters in recent years.<br/> Simon Hanna, Reuters.
