NBC helicopter crash in LA kills at least three people with others injured
Accident occurred as news crews in Los Angeles were covering a bus crash that had killed at least two people hours earlier
A news helicopter crash in a Los Angeles neighborhood has killed at least three people, after it came to the ground and burst into flames near the site of a bus crash that occurred hours earlier.
The helicopter crashed near a one-storey commercial building in the neighborhood of Chatsworth in the San Fernando Valley, as news crews were covering the bus crash that left at least two people dead and six others injured, according the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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