Search suspended for 4 missing in Gulf helicopter crash off oil platform operated by Houston company

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The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for four people on board a helicopter that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico, while departing an oil platform on Thursday morning.

Although the crash is not a closed case, crews will not resume a search unless they receive new information, Petty Officer Jose Hernandez, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard’s 8th District, which is headquartered in New Orleans, said Friday. New information includes additional debris or a body.

The helicopter’s pilot and three oil workers went down around 8:40 a.m. Thursday about 10 miles offshore of Southwest Pass, a shipping channel at the mouth of the Mississippi River southeast of New Orleans. Helicopters routinely transport workers to and from oil platforms in the Gulf. Crews in a boat and a helicopter searched for eight hours, covering an area of roughly 180 square miles . Hernandez said that crews did find debris, but no people. Photos of the debris released by the Coast Guard showed a cluster of cylindrical yellow objects bobbing in the water.

One of the missing workers is 36-year-old David Scarborough of Lizana, Mississippi, according to his wife, Lacy Scarborough. She told the Sun Herald newspaper that they are expecting a baby, and that her husband recently got a job promotion.

 

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