[CedarDave]

Lengthy article with timeline of events including search efforts to find the chopper.

[CedarDave]

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[George from New England]

No idea what BCSO stands for

[SES1066]

From the article timeline, it took 39 minutes to locate and arrive on scene of the crash (7:29p to 8:08p), so that was, for that area, a good response time.

It will take time for the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) to investigate and attempt to determine cause(s) and solutions. It is very probable that this helicopter had the post-mortem orange boxes for the inquest.

Helicopters are marvelous machines, so capable of wondrous feats of flying! But everyone involved in their operation knows that maxim that the machine is basically a collection of unwilling parts flying in close formation until they don’t!

RIP for these professionals and especially for their families and friends!