Click here for the video leading up to the collision.And may God rest their poor souls.
However, I sit here scratching my head at this terrible loss due to the fact that these lives were wasted while these news folks were bringing we the public yet another of societies idiots being chased by the police in mid afternoon in Phoenix, AZ. This, the latest episode in this 24 hour news / reality show raging obsession as those who regularly watch or listen in the background to these news programs in the afternoon like I do can attest.
At least 2 or 3 times a week you can turn on Fox or MSNBC and see this wasteful use of resources just to fill air time.
Is this really news we could use or news being abused? What a waste of life this was, just to get the next shots of yet another drug addict or wannabe criminal celebrity running from the cops knowing they'll be on the evening news more than likely on a slow news day while talking to their drug destination or dealer on the phone who's watching them on Fox while they're being chased, sometimes even waving at the choppers following them believe it or not which I've seen.
What a poor waste of life today as we now have "eye in the sky paparazzi" (new chicagoray term coined today) basically developing before our eyes in competition to bring us the news supposedly.
News Choppers Collide, Crash In Phoenix
(CBS) PHOENIX Two television news helicopters collided Friday and crashed while covering a police pursuit, killing three people.
Both helicopters went down in a park in central Phoenix and caught fire.
The collision happened as the two choppers broadcast live coverage of police pursuing a truck. Cameras aboard both aircraft were pointed at the ground, so viewers did not witness the accident.
The first indication of trouble came when pictures from the helicopters went dead. Just before the collision, the driver of the truck that was being pursued had jumped out of pickup and carjacked another truck.
ABC affiliate KNXV-TV reported that it owned one of the choppers. The other was from KTVK-TV, which a reporter tearfully told viewers that one of the helicopters was theirs, and that the pilot and photographer aboard were killed.
At least two dead when 2 choppers crash in mid-air in Phoenix:
WBOC-TV 16, Delmarvas News Leader, FOX 21 -
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