News and helicopters - e.g. BA038
The accident to BA038 happened at 12:42 on 17/01/2008. The first I knew about it was on going into the work canteen a minute or two after 13:00 and there it was, on the news - helicopter pictures and no information at all about what had happened.
What I'd like to know is, how do you get hold of a helicopter and pilot so quickly? - is there one always on standby for this sort of thing? -, and how actually would the news organisations find out about an event - Heathrow/BA press office, or passers-by?