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Offline rpm

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« on: July 27, 2007, 04:10:29 PM »
2 TV helos following a police chase in Phoenix collided and crashed into a city park with 4 souls onboard. KTVK Channel 3 in Phoenix confirmed that one of their news helicopters was involved in the crash. KNXV-TV Channel 15 reported that one of the choppers belonged to the station.

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« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2007, 04:15:03 PM »
Saw video of the crash site. :(
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« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2007, 04:21:21 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2007, 04:24:18 PM »
I didn't feel comfortable posting the crash site here. If there was a bright side of this, at least they came down in the park and not the residential area. I heard as many as 5 helos were up covering the chase and the helo from Channel 10 caught the incident live.

This is an avoidable tragedy. I know ratings are important for stations, but covering a police pursuit really has no business on live TV. All anyone watches for is the eventual crash and related gore. Unfortunately, this time it was the aircraft.
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« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2007, 04:28:37 PM »
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This is an avoidable tragedy. I know ratings are important for stations, but covering a police pursuit really has no business on live TV. All anyone watches for is the eventual crash and related gore. Unfortunately, this time it was the aircraft.
Yep.   Ratings put them in harm's way.
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« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2007, 04:48:10 PM »
To threadjump a bit, should the person being chased by the police be charged with murdering them?
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« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2007, 05:04:49 PM »
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To threadjump a bit, should the person being chased by the police be charged with murdering them?


no! why?
the Helos are private companys, doing this chase with cameras
for what reason, yes that we can watch it live. No other reason.

Its an accident, was it worth ? dont ask me, ask the family of the pilot.

no return, gone is gone.
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« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2007, 05:18:20 PM »
There have been similar incidents where culprits were charged and convicted of contributing so it could happen.
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« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2007, 05:20:21 PM »
Just watched a report. It was a LOW speed chase. There is footage of them going in. The last words were "Oh Jeez!" :(
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« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2007, 05:27:10 PM »
Um, where could I find this footage? Our local news isnt covering it, and im interested in exactly what happened.
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« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2007, 05:32:01 PM »
I went to the channel 10 web site but they are not playing a clip of the collision. They are covering the crash site and doing interviews.

One of the interviews talked about the chase. The suspect had rammed multiple Police cars. When his original vehicle died he either jacked or stole another one and continued. Last I heard on it was that the suspect was baricaded in a house. Unknown if he has a weapon or hostages. Details are sketchy on what I saw.


Update, news stating that there were no survivors. Not surprising but still sad.

RIP to both crews.

I'd imagine that new FAA regs regarding this kind of situation may be coming as a result of this.
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« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2007, 06:07:19 PM »
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/3645.html

Mind you they are already discussing charging him with negligent homicide for the deaths of the helicopter crews.
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« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2007, 06:23:51 PM »
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Um, where could I find this footage? Our local news isnt covering it, and im interested in exactly what happened.
http://cbs11tv.com/national
I think this is the report I watched. I'm on dialup so I can't preview it for you.
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« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2007, 06:44:46 PM »
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Um, where could I find this footage? Our local news isnt covering it, and im interested in exactly what happened.



There is no footage of the mid-air crash itself. All cameras were trained on the chase. There is footage from inside one chopper for a couple of seconds, but it doesn't show the collision.

I have seen one picture of one of the choppers folded up in mid air, and the other relatively complete trailing smoke and nose down in a terminal dive.
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« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2007, 06:55:10 PM »
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There is no footage of the mid-air crash itself. All cameras were trained on the chase. There is footage from inside one chopper for a couple of seconds, but it doesn't show the collision.

I have seen one picture of one of the choppers folded up in mid air, and the other relatively complete trailing smoke and nose down in a terminal dive.
That sounds like exactly what I saw. I saw one clip during the 4pm report on CBS11 that showed the last split second of flight and the groundstrikes. I did read a local Phoenix news story that said the live feed from Channel 10 caught the collision and that is probably where the clip and stills came from.
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