Meanwhile, James hiked through the forest for two long, cold days and nights, and Kati and her children waited through two more days of freezing temperatures until private helicopters discovered and rescued them.
You get that? A PRIVATE helicopter discovered them. Had a TFR been invoked as you people on this thread want, ALL private aircraft would have been kept out of the area.
After doing some research on this, it turns out that the search was very badly managed for many reasons. The government was embarrassed by it's performance, and is obviously seeking to pin blame somewhere. At some point government helicopters with thermal gear used the excuse of the lack of a TFR for their not flying. That's BS. They're merely accustomed to demanding restricted airspace for everything they do and don't like to operate without it. They're weenies.
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Hogwash. His staying at home or preparing better instead of listening to the nagging of family would have prevented him from making a bad decision to go into the heart of winter madness ill-prepared.
I call it the John Kennedy, Jr Syndrome. JKJS, for short.
I would recon that John Kennedy Senior might still be alive if Jacqueline hadn't been nagging John about the Dallas heat.