NBC4 anchor Colleen Williams struggled to maintain her composure as she confirmed live on the air that her station’s own news helicopter had crashed while covering a deadly collision in Los Angeles. The station had spent roughly two hours reporting on the helicopter wreck while its newsroom worked to determine whether the aircraft was NewsChopper4. Williams finally delivered the confirmation viewers and her colleagues had feared. The crash killed the station’s aerial reporter and pilot, along with a man on the ground.
The helicopter went down shortly before 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 15th, in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles. NewsChopper4 had been covering an earlier collision between an SUV and a Metro bus that killed two people and injured several others. Multiple news helicopters were above the scene when the NBC4 newsroom suddenly lost contact with its crew. The station continued covering the unfolding disaster while trying to determine whose aircraft had crashed.
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