A news helicopter crashed Tuesday evening in a commercial part of Los Angeles, killing three people – including the veteran pilot and an aerial photojournalist-reporter – and leaving others injured, officials said. The Eurocopter AS350, working for stations NBC4 and Telemundo 52, crashed while providing coverage of a fatal bus collision in Chatsworth, a suburban neighborhood about 25 miles northwest of downtown, the stations said. NBC4 anchor Colleen Williams confirmed live on air that the crash involved its helicopter team – telling viewers, “We are going to take a couple of minutes to think about that, to process and to regroup” – before the station switched temporarily to other programming. 0:00 Tragedy as three…
A speeding motorcyclist in Colombia flew through the open doors of a public bus after apparently running a red light, landed on a passenger seat, apologized, and disappeared, leaving police still searching for him. The crash happened around noon on a Sunday at a busy intersection in Guadalajara de Buga, a city in central Colombia. […] The post Helmetless biker crashes through open bus doors in Colombia, walks away, and vanishes appeared first on American Almanac .
A speeding motorcyclist in Colombia flew through the open doors of a public bus after apparently running a red light, landed on a passenger seat, apologized, and disappeared, leaving police still searching for him. The crash happened around noon on a Sunday at a busy intersection in Guadalajara de Buga, a city in central Colombia. The unidentified rider, helmetless, sporting a Mohican-style haircut, slammed into the side of a route bus at high speed. His motorcycle struck the closed section of the door panel, but the open half of the bus doors gave his body a clear path inside. The impact catapulted him into the passenger compartment, where he landed on a seat. He got up, told stunned passengers he was fine, said he was sorry, and walked…Open
