Four people were killed on Friday when two television news
helicopters collided while following a police chase in Phoenix,
Arizona.
A pilot and photographer aboard each chopper were killed, police
confirmed.
Local television station KNXV reported that it owned one of the
choppers. The other was from KTVK.
Within a minute, other stations with helicopters in the area
began reporting news of the crash.
The men on the choppers were doing live coverage as police
chased a man driving a construction truck who had fled a traffic
stop and was driving erratically, hitting several cars and driving
on the sidewalk at times.
The man fleeing from police was later taken into custody after
barricading himself inside a house, police said
Both helicopters went down in a park in central Phoenix and
caught fire. No one on the ground was hurt.
(Xinhua News Agency July 28, 2007)
