Deadly Helicopter Crash
Two news helicopters fall after colliding in midair while covering a police pursuit in central Phoenix, 4 people are dead.
The driver jumped a set of traffic lights, hit several cars and then drove along the pavement before abandoning his vehicle and car-jacking another.
As the cameras zoomed in on the action, KNXV news reporter Craig Smith, who died in the collision, said “Oh geez!” and the screen went blank.
Viewers caught a jumble of broken images before the stations cut back to the studio.
Mary Lewis, who saw the incident, said: “I looked up and I see this ‘boom,’ and I see one of the helicopters coming down, and I said ‘Oh my God’.”
The two helicopters crashed to earth near a boarded-up church in Steele Indian School Park.
Kyle Sciranko 