On a Tuesday evening in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, a news helicopter sent to bear witness to one tragedy became a tragedy of its own — three lives lost when NBC Los Angeles's NewsChopper4 fell between commercial buildings near Lurline Avenue and Nordhoff Street. The aircraft had been circling alongside other news crews to document a fatal bus collision when it went down, igniting fires among the debris below. It is a somber reminder that the act of recording human suffering carries its own mortal risk, and that a single day can hold more grief than any neighborhood should have to absorb.
Three dead in Los Angeles news helicopter crash near bus incident
Three people killed in the helicopter crash; one survivor hospitalized with unknown condition. Earlier bus crash that prompted news coverage killed two people and injured six others.