AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - NBC reporter learned on live TV that his own crew was aboard helicopter that crashed in Los Angeles
An NBC news helicopter covering a fatal bus collision in Los Angeles crashed Tuesday night, killing the two crew members aboard and a bystander on the ground, while a fellow NBC reporter on the scene realized in real time that his colleagues were inside. Robert Kovacik, an NBC4 reporter, was broadcasting live from the Chatsworth […] The post NBC reporter learned on live TV that his own crew was aboard helicopter that crashed in Los Angeles appeared first on American Almanac .
An NBC news helicopter covering a fatal bus collision in Los Angeles crashed Tuesday night, killing the two crew members aboard and a bystander on the ground, while a fellow NBC reporter on the scene realized in real time that his colleagues were inside. Robert Kovacik, an NBC4 reporter, was broadcasting live from the Chatsworth neighborhood when the station's NewsChopper4 suddenly lost altitude and plunged into a parking lot at the intersection of Nordhoff Street and DeSoto Avenue. He did not know his own colleagues, aerial reporter Eliana Moreno, 38, and veteran pilot George Marciniw, 70, were aboard the aircraft until another journalist broke the news to him on camera. The helicopter went down roughly two hours after a separate crash…Open