News helicopter crashes in LA while covering bus collision, killing 3

On a Tuesday morning in the San Fernando Valley, a news helicopter dispatched to bear witness to one tragedy became a tragedy of its own, falling from the sky into a Chatsworth parking lot and claiming three more lives. The crew had arrived to document an SUV-bus collision that had already killed two people nearby — only to have their final moments captured in cockpit footage that cuts to black at impact. In the span of minutes and within a few city blocks, five people were dead and the machinery of both emergency response and federal investigation had been set in motion. It is a reminder that