Two helicopters collide over Phoenix

[Mrs Behavin]

PHOENIX - Two news helicopters covering a police chase on live television collided and crashed to the ground Friday, killing all four people on board in a plunge that viewers saw as a jumble of spinning, broken images.
Both helicopters went down in a park in central Phoenix and caught fire. No one on the ground was hurt.
TV viewers did not actually witness the accident because cameras aboard both aircraft were pointed at the ground. But they saw images from one of the helicopters break up and begin to spin before the station abruptly switched to the studio.
Television station KNXV reported that it owned one of the choppers. The other was from KTVK. A pilot and photographer aboard each chopper were killed.
KNXV reporter Craig Smith, who was among the dead, was reporting live as police chased a man driving a construction truck who had fled a traffic stop and was driving erratically, hitting several cars and driving on the sidewalk at times.
Police had blown the truck's tires, and the man eventually parked it, then carjacked another vehicle nearby.
As police closed in, Smith said, "Oh geez!"
After the picture broke up, the station switched to the studio and then briefly showed regular programming, a soap opera, before announcing that the helicopter had crashed.
The two choppers came down on the grass lawn in front of a boarded-up church at the park. Firefighters swarmed to the area as thick black smoke rose from the scene.

read the rest here....Two helicopters collide over Phoenix - Yahoo! News

 

[GraceAbounds]

 

[sundvlfn88]

I saw that on the news tonight. That is a sad situation. I heard the guy that they were taping could be charged in the deaths of the crash due to them taping a criminal charge.

 

[GraceAbounds]

I thought it was the guy that the cops were chasing that was possibly going to be charged with the collision.

I don't know though, this post is the first I heard of it. I was in church all evening. We were having our last night of VBS.

 

[sundvlfn88]

Exactly Grace

 

[GraceAbounds]

Oh, did you see or know about it before now? Did you know any of the folks that died?

I wonder if any of the copters were westcor choppers. I have a friend that that knows all the pilots over there.

It is just really sad.

 

[All Else Failed]

Yeah this sucks. Charging the guy for their deaths though?

 

[GraceAbounds]

Yeah, I don't know. I don't think it is 'official'.

 

[sundvlfn88]

I didn't know any of them I am only quoting what I saw on the news.

 

[Boomer]

Yeah, its bullshit if he gets charged for the crash. He had nothing to do with the choppers. It was just a shitty circumstance.