Posted on 07/29/2007 3:43:38 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
PHOENIX — Federal investigators on Saturday began gathering debris from two news helicopters that collided while covering a police chase on live television and crashed, killing all four people aboard.
The investigators plan to lay out the wreckage elsewhere to try to determine the point where the two aircraft collided Friday, National Transportation Safety Board investigator Howard Plagens said.
"We're just mapping out the locations ... how things are scattered, that's our main focus," he said.
Investigators said they'll need at least another day to finish going through the debris, which was sprayed across the ground and landed atop nearby buildings.
On Saturday, investigators allowed reporters into the crash site.
The helicopters' hulls were flipped over and squashed in two twisted heaps. The explosion blackened grass and trees. Curved metal sheets from the choppers floated upside down in a nearby pond.
Meanwhile, the man suspected of starting the chase was booked into jail on three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of theft and one count of resisting arrest.
Christopher Jermaine Jones, 23, also may be held responsible for the helicopter crash, police said.
Formal charges are expected to come later. At an initial court appearance, bail was set at $1 million.
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Tight assed broads play helo chicken......
And I’m saying if it were anybody else, you wouldn’t question the extra charges. Tacking on murder charges for deaths resulting from the commission of a felony is SOP.
But the perpetrator had nothing to do with the news helicopters being present....they were voluntarily putting themselves into harm's way.
I guess you would support those lawsuits against the military when journalists get killed while covering combat operations.
And I guess that if a news reporter has a heart attack and dies while reading a story about this, we add more charges?
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