Los Angeles Fire Battalion Chief Rico Gross (C), flanked by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (R) and Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, briefs reporters after a US news media helicopter covering a deadly bus crash, came down in Chatsworth, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on September 15, 2026. Three people were killed and one person was hospitalized after the helicopter crashed between two commercial buildings, igniting on fire instantly, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. (Credit: Photo by Blake Fagan / AFP via Getty Images)
A television news helicopter covering a deadly Los Angeles-area crash went down in flames of its own Tuesday evening, killing the two crew members aboard and a third person on the ground, according to NBC Los Angeles. The aircraft, known on air as NewsChopper4 and flown for NBC4 and its Spanish-language sister station Telemundo 52, crashed shortly before 7 p.m. in Chatsworth, just blocks from the scene it had been streaming live minutes earlier.
Two crashes, one night, one stretch of the Valley
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