Helicopter Pilot Threatened With Arrest Over Helene Rescues
4th October 2024
“If that’s what you want us to do, we’ll leave, no issue,” he told WJZY. “And I explained to him that I left my son on the side of the mountain, and I left another victim. I was going to go back and bring them. It was already set up for the landing spot and then I would get out of his area. He told me I wasn’t going to go back up the mountain to get them; I was going to leave them there.”
When he asked the official for a specific reason why he was ordering him to stop his rescue efforts, Seidhom said the man said, “You’re interfering with my operation.”
Seidhom said he told the official he was going back to get his copilot.
“He said, ‘If you turn around and go back up the mountain, you’re going to be arrested,'” Seidhom said. “I said, ‘Well, sir, I’m going back to get my copilot, I don’t know what to tell you.'”
No good deed goes unpunished.