Well it was a big chopper and my recollection is that it was described to me as a Dornier (spelling?). As well, six or seven NSC freeloaders all slept on my living room floor and ate me out of house and home.
Thinking about it the sequence of events was that they lifted the plane off the lake when they found it. They were called in to conduct the search after he went down. It then sat on the lake shore until it was flown out. NSC turned up at LEC with the chopper and a fixed wing twin.