The moment a journalist reporting from a Los Angeles street witnessed a deadly helicopter crash without knowing his own crew was inside was caught on video.

Robert Kovacik, who works for NBC, was covering a bus crash in the Chatsworth neighborhood Tuesday night when the chopper went down in a parking lot.

The reporter, unaware that his colleagues Eliana Moreno and George Marciniw were inside, rushed to the crash site with his crew as the aircraft was engulfed in