Helicopter Crash Los Angeles News Choppers
FILE - A news helicopter flies over the South Central urban community garden in downtown Los Angeles, June 13, 2006, as authorities use a Los Angeles Fire Department ladder truck ladder, upper right, to extract actress Daryl Hannah and tree sitter John Quigley from a walnut tree.
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Los Angeles has been a city viewed from above by news helicopters for nearly seven decades. When there was a wildfire, a mudslide or O.J. Simpson fleeing the police across its ribbons of highway, an “eye in the sky” tracked it and advised millions how to keep out of harm’s way. On Tuesday, one of those flying newsrooms crashed live on-air and burst into flames, killing three people while reporters were covering the collision of an SUV and a city bus. NBC4 Los Angeles reported that two people aboard the helicopter — Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw — were killed, and fire officials said another person, Edy Gutierrez Mejia, died on the ground.
