Inflatables keep a helicopter upright following a crash in the Gulf of Mexico, Oct. 9, 2013. A Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-65 helicopter and crew assisted in the rescue and transport of one person.
A Scotland-based energy company said a contract pilot was killed and two of three passengers were airlifted to a New Orleans hospital with injuries Wednesday morning after a helicopter crashed near Venice.
The pilot was flying a chopper owned by Panther Helicopters in Belle Chasse. He succumbed to his injuries, and two of three Wood Group PSN employees who were aboard were airlifted to LSU Medical Center, company spokeswoman Bobbie Ireland said. Their injuries weren't immediately know. The fourth passenger escaped unharmed.
The helicopter carrying the four men crashed immediately after taking off from an oil rig with the three men whose shifts had just ended, Ireland said.
The crash was reported 30 miles away from Venice at approximately 7:24 a.m. near the Main Pass Block 108, according to the Coast Guard.
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