It’s been a bad year for Rotorcraft Leasing Company of Broussard.
Friday a helicopter carrying four into the Gulf after leaving an oil rig 10-miles off Southwest Pass.
No survivors were found following a Coast Guard search.
This is the latest of three crashes involving Rotorcraft helicopters.
Two people died when a Rotorcraft chopper crashed into a marsh back in January.
Three people survived a Rotorcraft crash just two weeks ago when a helicopter plunged into the Gulf some 30-miles off Terrebonne Bay.
The latest accident involving a Rotorcraft helicopter is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
It will be three weeks before a preliminary report is available.
According to the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate, Rotorcraft began in 1990 as repair and overhaul company.
By 2000 the company was offering charter operations and began a period of steady growth after 2004.
Through acquisitions of other companies and assets, Rotorcraft now employs 80-pilots and owns facilities in Galliano and Mouton Cove.
This latest accident involving a Rotorcraft ship occurred when, as witnesses reported, the helicopter struck the oil platforms landing pad and tumbled into the water.
The names of those aboard the copter have not been officially released.
But the Coast Guard has identified one passenger as David Scarborough of Harrison County, Mississippi.
Scarborough’s wife said her husband was aboard the craft coming back with two other workers from the Houston-owned platform.
The three worked for Island Operating Company of Lafayette.
