I will withdraw my comment about PICUS, etc. i'm not going to delete it, as it will make the replies after the fact look silly...
However the way the issue was first portrayed was that he took over the flight on duals, and it seems that is not the case, so therefore the PICUS comment was irrelevant.
I would suspect that there is far more to this case than most of us on here will hear about, and you will never get all the relevant facts from a news story.
Considering that he dropped the guys in with a 44, why didn't he just load the rescue crew in the Jet Ranger that is sitting in the background in his pictures, put the duals in and go along supervising his junior pilot.