NTSB: No disaster signal has been sent after a helicopter crash in 2023, in which two BRPD – WBRZ employees killed

Baton Rouge – The pilot’s decision to fly in a foggy and foggy time, which may have caused the Baton Rouge police helicopter to collapse in March 2023 and kill two officers, a recently released National Transport Safety Council said.

The report published on Tuesday said that the helicopter left the Baton Rouge airport in Sofia to help in the parish pursuit of the parish of the western Baton Rouge, despite the foggy and foggy conditions. The full report can be read here.

The helicopter began to experience an “unstable altitude and changes in the air” on the return to BTR after the pursuit was canceled. A disaster signal has not been sent after deterioration. The air traffic control tower was also not staff during the crash in the early morning.

SGT. David Poirie, 47 and CPL. The 38 -year -old Scottie Kanesaro was killed in the crash after being with the department respectively 17 years and 16 years.

BRPD dissolved its air support unit shortly after the crash.