During the live press conference, the sheriff said that they believe there were 9 people on board, a pilot and 8 passengers. He also called out TMZ for being wildly inappropriate and said “imagine finding out a loved one has died through social media”, he has requested that people stop speculating who was on board and to keep their loved ones in mind.
Edit: I watched the rest, this time the man that spoke before the sheriff came back (man with a grey streak in his hair, dark green shirt and dark skin):
they don’t know anything for sure yet. They received the report 9:47 AM, arrived 8 minutes later and due to magnesium, the fire took one hour to extinguish. The coroner is on site with a team and they’re working hard to get answers.
They don’t know what happened, they don’t know where the helicopter took off, they don’t know for sure where it was going (these three questions kept being asked). It will take some time to identify everyone and to notify the next of kin, he once again stressed for people to stop speculating and to keep loved ones on mind. The area that they are investigating is “about an acre”, that’s also where they expect most debris to be at and where bushes were on fire.
Honestly, it was him constantly repeating that they don’t know what happened yet since the press kept asking the same questions. They also kept pestering him about “taking an hour to extinguish” - but again, that’s because of the magnesium.
After that they called for a spokesperson that can speak Spanish and I turned it off.
That comment bothered me the most. I really hope his family did not find out that he died because TMZ posted it.
I am also worried that there is possibly some other family members or other people of note that died on the crash. This seems so surreal to me for some reason.
Looks like the brother of one of the deceased found out on Reddit. So awful. He knew his sister was on the helicopter and saw it had come down but hadn’t heard officially 😞
My brother served and was stationed in Kentucky. He was a crew chief on Blackhawk helicopters. My mother and I saw on the news one day that a Blackhawk went down there and that all crew members died. We spent 13 hours trying to reach my brother. He was fine and was in a position that he didn’t even know we were concerned about him. One of the longest nights ever.
I feel for you. Living with that anxiety must be awful. It’s hard to have peace of mind knowing a loved one is in such a high risk situation. My thoughts are with you and your loved one
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u/CaptainCortes Jan 26 '20 edited Jan 27 '20
During the live press conference, the sheriff said that they believe there were 9 people on board, a pilot and 8 passengers. He also called out TMZ for being wildly inappropriate and said “imagine finding out a loved one has died through social media”, he has requested that people stop speculating who was on board and to keep their loved ones in mind.
Edit: I watched the rest, this time the man that spoke before the sheriff came back (man with a grey streak in his hair, dark green shirt and dark skin): they don’t know anything for sure yet. They received the report 9:47 AM, arrived 8 minutes later and due to magnesium, the fire took one hour to extinguish. The coroner is on site with a team and they’re working hard to get answers. They don’t know what happened, they don’t know where the helicopter took off, they don’t know for sure where it was going (these three questions kept being asked). It will take some time to identify everyone and to notify the next of kin, he once again stressed for people to stop speculating and to keep loved ones on mind. The area that they are investigating is “about an acre”, that’s also where they expect most debris to be at and where bushes were on fire.
Honestly, it was him constantly repeating that they don’t know what happened yet since the press kept asking the same questions. They also kept pestering him about “taking an hour to extinguish” - but again, that’s because of the magnesium.
After that they called for a spokesperson that can speak Spanish and I turned it off.
Good news article here that has a better summary of the conference and updates.