On a September morning in Chatsworth, west of Los Angeles, a helicopter fell from the sky into a parking lot already shadowed by nearby tragedy, killing three people and injuring at least one more. The aircraft — believed to be a television news helicopter documenting a fatal bus collision — became, in an instant, a second emergency layered upon the first. It is a reminder that those who bear witness to disaster are never truly outside it, and that the work of accounting for the dead is always the first, hardest task before any search for causes can begin.
Three killed in helicopter crash near Los Angeles
Three people killed in the helicopter crash; at least one victim was in a parking lot outside the aircraft.