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At Least 2 Dead After Two TV News Choppers Collide, Crash While Covering Car Chase in Phoenix
Fox News ^ | Friday July 27, 2007 | Milwaukee_Guy

Posted on 07/27/2007 1:17:37 PM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy

Phoenix — Two helicopters collided in midair and crashed while covering a police pursuit in central Phoenix Friday afternoon, killing at least two people. Both helicopters were news choppers from local television stations.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: carchase; christopherjones; crash; donutwatch; helicopter; policechase; tvchase
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

One day....have you heard of pay backs????? : )


181 posted on 07/27/2007 6:01:24 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: nicmarlo

With ice cream on top ?...;0)


182 posted on 07/27/2007 6:03:57 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

lolol!

“It’s” going to be a double now. : )


183 posted on 07/27/2007 6:04:41 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: donna
These are nice people who do traffic and monsoon reporting everyday. This is a tragedy.

I agree, Donna. Very sad.

184 posted on 07/27/2007 6:05:33 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: KevinB

I don’t know. Time will tell.


185 posted on 07/27/2007 6:08:49 PM PDT by dbacks (I forgot to pay the rent on my tagline.)
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To: Milwaukee_Guy

I saw this on an old Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle once.


186 posted on 07/27/2007 6:09:27 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("Lord, give me chastity and temperance, but not now." - St. Augustine)
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To: BurbankKarl

I have no idea.


187 posted on 07/27/2007 6:11:24 PM PDT by dbacks (I forgot to pay the rent on my tagline.)
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To: HitmanLV
Ill fated Channel 15 helicopter.
188 posted on 07/27/2007 6:12:16 PM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy (Don't hit them between the eyes. Hit them right -in- the eyes!)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

Perhaps this will also set a precident for perps to get nominated for emmy’s should the news crew be awarded for good footage...isn’t that the reasoning here?


189 posted on 07/27/2007 6:21:10 PM PDT by dcgard
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To: Milwaukee_Guy
That's terrible.

I have to ask though, is it really necessary to have three news helicopters buzzing about for a friggen car chase?

Let the cop chopper chase them if need be.

190 posted on 07/27/2007 6:24:35 PM PDT by csvset
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To: dcgard
Perhaps this will also set a precident for perps to get nominated for emmy’s should the news crew be awarded for good footage...isn’t that the reasoning here?
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I don’t think so,,,the perp is going down for murder from
what I have read,,,X 4 ,,,

My point was too damn many aircraft in close air-space,,,
uncontrolled...

191 posted on 07/27/2007 6:34:17 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: Milwaukee_Guy

If I had it my way, I would put NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and the NY Times out of business (and I just threw the NY Times in there for kicks).

They allow the sensationalism of these car chases and we all knew something like this would happen one day.

How about we just let the Police do their job? How about we stop showing people how to be a sensationalist? How about we bury the media because it needs to be?


192 posted on 07/27/2007 6:34:35 PM PDT by do the dhue (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I wont - George S. Patton Jr)
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To: wardaddy
why on earth do so many freepers use otherwise tragic events to be dickheads?

1) Jealousy of celebrityhood. People love to see the noteworthy people taken down. That is, if they aren't propping them up.

2) Media hypocrisy. Anger at a news media that has a double standard between the people they cover and themselves when it comes to things like invasion of privacy and right-to-know. Add to this the constant tone of media elitisim that they know better than you do and if you disagree, you must be ignorant or biased, while they claim to always be objective and fair.

3) Tragedy overload. When the news every day is about death, dying and dire predictions, one cracks jokes to deal with the horror.

4) Gallows humor. Similar to reason 3, some feel that making jokes relieves some of the inner stress of witnessing something horrible.

193 posted on 07/27/2007 6:45:50 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (Global warming? Hell, in Texas, we just call that "summer".)
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To: catbertz
public spokesman for the cops said that the chased driver can be held responsible for the chopper crash

That is stupid. These car chase videos are nothing more than ploy to attract more viewers. There is no need to have helicopters in the air for public safety in a car chase. They could have done it by simply listening to the police scanner and repeating back the useful information.

The key point is that the TV station had the *option* of putting helicopters in the air to cover this chase or just reporting information from the police. The cause of their deaths was their own failure to operate their helicopters correctly and maintain a reasonable minimum distance. The responsibility rests at the feet of the helicopter pilots themselves and those in the TV industry who push them on to do such stupid reporting--not on the perp even though he is undoubtedly a scumbag.

194 posted on 07/27/2007 6:50:24 PM PDT by burzum (None shall see me, though my battlecry may give me away -Minsc)
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To: donna

Dang. RIP, and condolences to their families.


195 posted on 07/27/2007 7:02:32 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: donna

Around 6pm, ABC15 said Molly was not on the chopper this time.


196 posted on 07/27/2007 7:25:49 PM PDT by Stayingawayfromthedarkside
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To: donna

Sorry for being redundant. I was basically responing to your post #62 to let you know that Molly was not on board. I read post#87 wrong.


197 posted on 07/27/2007 7:31:07 PM PDT by Stayingawayfromthedarkside
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To: Milwaukee_Guy

Is that a body?

[IMG]http://s188.photobucket.com/albums/z163/ulm4lyf/th_crash1.jpg[/IMG]


198 posted on 07/27/2007 8:06:19 PM PDT by gop4lyf
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To: gop4lyf

sorry, I don’t know how to resize.


199 posted on 07/27/2007 8:07:21 PM PDT by gop4lyf
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To: JillValentine

by “whole dang sky” i was referring to the fact that the sky is much much less crowded than the traffic below making avoiding crashes ALOT easier..

...unless you are hovering around a car chase down below like a couple of mad parrots in flight..

..or perhaps a more fitting metaphor would be a couple of vultures looking out for carrion below


200 posted on 07/27/2007 8:10:04 PM PDT by modest proposal
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