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BREAKING: Two Phoenix news helicopters collide


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Happened while covering a police chase.

 

God be with the victims and the stations. :o

 

BC-Helicopters Collide,0082

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2 television news helicopters collide while following police

pursuit in Phoenix

PHOENIX (AP) -- Two television news helicopters collided Friday

and crashed while covering a police pursuit.

Both helicopters went down in a park and were on fire.

There was no immediate word on the fate of those aboard.

 

(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

APTV-07-27-07 1603EDT

One is KNXV's chopper, the other is KTVK (TV 3).

http://www.abc15.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3440f3ba-b741-47ee-948b-d82997dcdeda

 

KTVK reports: Two television news helicopters covering a police pursuit crashed and burned in a central Phoenix park, killing at least two people.

 

New: The other chopper was KTVK's.

 

4:22pm: Three people dead.

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