Officials said the pilot and three oil workers onboard the helicopter were in the process of departing from a Houston-owned oil platform before it crashed.
The U.S. Coast Guard spent hours Thursday searching the waters off Louisiana for four people on board a helicopter that crashed while departing an oil platform.The helicopter's pilot and three oil workers went into the Gulf of Mexico at about 8:40 a.m., said Petty Officer Jose Hernandez, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard's 8th District headquartered in New Orleans. Crews in a boat and a helicopter had found no sign of them by the middle of the afternoon.
One of the missing workers is 36-year-old David Scarborough of Lizana, Mississippi, according to his wife. Lacy Scarborough told theShe said her family was praying that her husband and the others would be rescued safely.The helicopter went down about 10 miles offshore of Southwest Pass, a shipping channel at the mouth of the Mississippi River southeast of New Orleans. Helicopters routinely transport workers to and from oil platforms in the Gulf.
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