Its time we ban news organizations from broadcasting police chases live in my opinion. I’ve been waiting for something like this to happen over a Los Angeles freeway since OJ’s infamous slow speed chase.
Ban them?
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Ban ‘broadcasting live’. Not ‘ban helicopters’ nor ‘ban reporters from helicopters’.
Just stop making it a way of bumping the local stations ratings. Its causing pilots to do stupid things, like hover one on top of another over residential areas.
Yes, lets just ban all this.
I have a story for you. There was a chase going east on the 101 FWY around Calabasas 2 years ago. No less than 6 helicopters flying around. There is a big noisy Navy helicopter that goes to Point Mugu NAS every day at that time. He dropped down to 50 feet for safety. Almost all the trash in a dumpster was flying around. Lots of big noise and wind and dust.