saturday night, the three inmates fled the jail climbing into a green-colored helicopter that briefly touched down in the prison courtyard and quickly took off heading west, possibly toward montreal. >> there's a massive hunt with our partners, not only in quebec, but also in canada and the states, so everybody is giving a hand to find them as quickly as possible. >> reporter: two of the escaped inmates were arrested in a drug bust in 2010 and were awaiting trial. police aren't revealing too many details about the investigation for fear the escapees are monitoring the media. not only does it sound like a scene ripped from the pages of a television script, but this latest dramatic escape mirrors one that unfolded in santro prison also in quebec 15 months ago when two men hijacked a