Chopper 4 down in NYC

Last night during the 6:00 news, I was watching the WABC news when Shannon
Sohn, the Newscopter 7 reporter suddenly came on, very shaken, and said that
Chopper 4, her counterpart on WNBC, had just gone down seconds earlier. She
was particularly upset because her husband is the morning reporter in that
same aircraft, and she used some of the report to let police know the
address of the building the wreckage was on top of. Good job. A bit later
they showed film of the copter spinning out of control, hitting the roof of
one building, turning over and then crashing onto an adjacent roof.
Fortunately everyone, pilot, reporter and a trainee pilot, got out without
life-threatening injuries. There was one typical gaff later that evening on
another channel were the reporter described how the pilot "managed to set it
down" on a roof. Pretty good flying all right, since he was completely out
of control, and was upside down when he hit the second roof!

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wab...4_copter4.html

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

I don't have to like Bush and Cheney (Or Kerry, for that matter) to love
America