A news helicopter crashed in the Chatsworth community of Los Angeles while it was covering a bus collision Tuesday evening, killing three people, officials said.
\n\nThe aircraft crashed in a parking lot at or near a self-storage facility in the community, which is in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department and news video on the ground from NBC Los Angeles.
\n\nThe station reported on the air that the helicopter was its own. It said earlier that it had lost contact with those on board.
\n\n“We knew it was a news chopper, we knew we’d lost contact with our people out there, and we’ve just received the confirmation that, in fact, News Chopper 4 went down just before 7 o’clock tonight in Chatsworth,” anchor Colleen Williams said.
\n\n“We’re going to take a couple of minutes to think about that, to process and to regroup,” Williams added, her voice at times emotional.
\n\nThree people were dead at the scene, and another person was taken to a hospital in unknown condition, the fire department said in a statement. At least one of the deceased appeared to be a pedestrian on the ground when the crash happened, Fire…
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