The U.S. Coast Guard spent hours Thursday searching waters off Louisiana for four people who were on board a helicopter that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico after taking off from an oil platform operated by a Houston company.
The helicopter went down about 10 miles offshore of Southwest Pass, a shipping channel at the mouth of the Mississippi River, southeast of New Orleans.
Hernandez said the missing consisted of the helicopter's pilot and three oil platform workers. Helicopters routinely transport workers to and from oil platforms in the Gulf. A person who answered a reporter's phone call to the Walter Oil and Gas' headquarters Thursday said no one was immediately available to comment.
Weather didn't appear to be a factor in the crash, Hernandez said, as there were no reports of storms in the area Thursday. Two weeks ago, the Coast Guard rescued three people after a helicopter crashed off the Louisiana coast while attempting to land on an oil rig platform. That crash occurred Dec. 15 south of Terrebonne Bay, roughly 60 miles west of the area the Coast Guard was searching Thursday.
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