Three killed in NBC News helicopter crash in Los Angeles
An NBC News helicopter covering a separate deadly bus collision crashed and caught fire, with two people taken to hospital.
Three people were killed and two others were taken to hospital after an NBC News helicopter crashed in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to reporting supplied by France 24 International.
The helicopter had been covering a separate collision in Chatsworth, where an SUV struck a bus, killing three people and injuring many others. The deaths from the two incidents were separate.
Aerial footage showed the helicopter wreckage engulfed in flames near a storage facility. Fire spread to nearby vehicles and storage containers before firefighters extinguished the blaze.
The identities of those killed, including people aboard the helicopter, had not been confirmed in the supplied reporting. The identities and conditions of those taken to hospital were also not specified.
No cause of the helicopter crash had been reported.
