Oh, she's REAL reliable, isn't she..........LOL.
Thanks.
Now joining us by phone, Shane Duffy, the chief pilot with Executive Helicopters, privately retained to lead the search. He spotted the Guays` car.
Mr. Duffy, thank you for being with us. What happened?
SHANE DUFFY, CHIEF PILOT, EXECUTIVE HELICOPTERS: You`re welcome. We were contacted by the Guays yesterday evening, and they asked if we could possibly do them the favor of doing a search for them. And we immediately got into action trying to, you know, help as best we could. Obviously, it`s a grave situation.
GRACE: How did you spot the car?
DUFFY: I`m not sure that we can actually take full credit for spotting the car. At the same time that we arrived searching the area, a state trooper also pulled up, obviously probably seeing the skid marks leading off the side of the road.
GRACE: So there were skid marks?
DUFFY: There weren`t any black marks on the asphalt, but from the air it was visible, tire tracks leaving the road surface going into the swampy area, yes, ma`am.
GRACE: And what did you see?
DUFFY: It was hard to make out at first. We orbited around the area, and we could just see the top of what looked like a white vehicle in the water. Obviously, you know, we have a hard time seeing that. It`s really dark water, and we were about 700 feet off the ground at the time.
GRACE: So it wasn`t totally submerged?
DUFFY: It was totally submerged, but it was just deep enough that you wouldn`t have been able to see it from the road, but looking directly down on it, we could actually see what looked like the roof of a car, with a sunroof, which is what we were mainly looking for, a white car with a sunroof.
Guess some of us out here weren't the only that heard the helicopter had found the car. Even Nancy Grace with all of your resources thought so too. Good to get the information.
It also speaks to how easily the trooper possibly saw the tire tracks from his car. This goes back to last Thursday and how it could be possible that EMS or LE did not see these tracks.