Helicopter, with 4 on board, crashes in Gulf of Mexico

The Coast Guard has spent hours searching off the coast of Louisiana for four people who were on board a helicopter that crashed in the Gulf of Mexico

BATON ROUGE, La. — — The U.S. Coast Guard spent hours Thursday searching waters off Louisiana for four people who were on board a helicopter that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.

Hernandez said the missing consisted of the helicopter's pilot and three oil platform workers. Helicopters routinely transport workers to and from oil platforms in the Gulf.

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