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Old 3rd May 2020, 15:20
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Originally Posted by gulliBell
Not sure why you'd be out at 2 am searching for bodies. You'd think it's a task that could wait a few hours until daylight.
I don't know the answer to this, other than I think HPD's Air Support Division pretty much always has something in the air, weather permitting. The scene was apparently hot, with a Crime Scene Unit already there. Other than that, details are apparently sketchy. Today's article in the Houston Chronicle does not add much. It provides a history of HPD air ops and previous incidents, though its reference to the 2016 incident does not mention that 75Fox was the unit involved.

The link below has audio and a transcript of the radio traffic between the first on scene and dispatchers. It might be unsettling to some.

https://abc13.com/helicopter-crash-h...ition/6144893/


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