BATON ROUGE, La.—The U.S. Coast Guard spent hours Thursday searching the waters off Louisiana for four people on board a helicopter that crashed while departing an oil platform.
The helicopter’s pilot and three oil workers went into the Gulf of Mexico about 8:40 a.m. CT, said Petty Officer Jose Hernandez, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard’s 8th District headquartered in New Orleans. Crews in a boat and a helicopter had found no sign of them by evening.
“So far we’ve only found debris and no people,” Hernandez said.
He said Coast Guard officials were still deciding whether to keep searching after dark….