The television news helicopters that circle Los Angeles have been fixtures of the city’s sky for decades, symbols of a hard-driving but close-knit media market. The crews aboard the choppers cover police chases and FBI raids, Hollywood scandals and sports celebrations, earthquakes and wildfires.
\n\nThe city’s TV news community was confronted with a tragedy of its own Tuesday when a helicopter used by the local NBC station crashed and burst into flames while hovering near the scene of a fatal bus collision. The chopper crash killed the two people aboard, journalist Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw, and one person on the ground. Two people died in the bus collision.
\n\nIn wrenching on-air remarks and social media posts, Los Angeles news anchors and their colleagues attempted to process their grief while continuing to report on the accident. The outpouring illustrated the tight bonds linking colleagues who found themselves at the center of the story in the nation’s second-largest broadcasting center.
\n\nNBC Los Angeles’ Robert Kovacik, who joined the station 22 years ago, reported live from a commercial intersection in Chatsworth, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley. Microphone in hand, he stood just feet away from the Metro bus and…
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