Originally Posted by
nomorehelosforme
the helicopter took off from Baton Rouge Metro airport at 2:26 a.m. and crashed in a field nearly three miles away from the Omni airport 12 minutes later. Sources told WBRZ the helicopter was found around 11:30 a.m. after the pilots did not come home from work.
If that part turns out to be true the Baton Rouge police department is (rightfully) in for HUGE problems. It infers no reliable method or SOP re flight following, which, nowadays, is unthinkable and unforgiveable.
(A recent helo accident in Canada comes to mind wherein the pilot and pax were not found for many hours for similar reasons. And at least one of those people lived for several hours, then died due to the delay in SAR.)
Damn...