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.
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