Ill fated Channel 15 helicopter.
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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One day....have you heard of pay backs????? : )
With ice cream on top ?...;0)
lolol!
“It’s” going to be a double now. : )
I agree, Donna. Very sad.
I don’t know. Time will tell.
I saw this on an old Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle once.
I have no idea.
Ill fated Channel 15 helicopter.
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?
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.
My point was too damn many aircraft in close air-space,,,
uncontrolled...
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?
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.
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.
Dang. RIP, and condolences to their families.
Around 6pm, ABC15 said Molly was not on the chopper this time.
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.
sorry, I don’t know how to resize.
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
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