Aircraft Was Enroute To Oil Platform
Unocal Corporation announced Wednesday that contact was lost
with an Era Aviation helicopter that was in route to a drilling
location in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday evening at about 7:15 p.m.
CST. The helicopter, with eight passengers and two crew members
aboard, was last contacted about 70 miles south of Galveston while
transporting workers to a drill ship. The sea vessel was in transit
to a drill site i200 miles south of Galveston. The helicopter
operator, Era Aviation of Lake Charles (LA), is under contract to
Unocal.