NTSB Moves 3-Fatal LA News Helicopter to Phoenix Facility for Crash Probe
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Updated · Arizona's Family · Sep 19
NTSB Moves 3-Fatal LA News Helicopter to Phoenix Facility for Crash Probe
3 articles · Updated · Arizona's Family · Sep 19
Summary
Phoenix will receive the wreckage of the Los Angeles news helicopter that crashed during a live broadcast Tuesday, killing three people.
NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said investigators want the Phoenix lab to recover avionics and other cockpit evidence that could show what happened before impact.
The helicopter burst into flames after going down while crews were covering a deadly SUV-bus collision; reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw died aboard, and Edy Gutierrez Mejia was killed on the ground.
At least eight fatal U.S. news-helicopter crashes since 2000 have killed 16 people, including Phoenix's 2007 midair collision that killed four and prompted stations there to share a single helicopter.