NBC helicopter crash in LA kills at least three people with others injured
- On Tuesday evening, an NBC4 news helicopter crashed between two commercial buildings in Chatsworth, killing three people, including a pedestrian on the ground, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
- The aircraft went down while covering a deadly collision involving a Metro bus and an SUV that occurred two hours earlier on Nordhoff Street, officials said.
- Fifty-Six firefighters responded to the fiery wreckage, while NBC4 anchor Colleen Williams confirmed on air that the station had lost contact with its crew.
- One additional person was transported to a hospital in unknown condition, while the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration announced they will investigate the crash.
- The crash renews scrutiny over aerial news gathering in Los Angeles, where helicopter coverage has long defined broadcast journalism and exposed reporters to inherent airspace risks.
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Three people were killed and one injured when an NBC News helicopter crashed while covering a news story in California.
The station was filming a fatal accident involving a bus and another vehicle.
Local media were broadcasting live images of the accident when it became known that the news helicopter, one of many flying over the area, had crashed The post Los Angeles: Three dead after news helicopter crash – They were covering a fatal accident appeared first on in.gr.
Three people died and another was transported to the hospital after a television helicopter crashed Tuesday night in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Fire Department announced in a post on social media networks, Reuters reports.
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