NBC reporter’s harrowing final words before fatal helicopter crash that killed three

 

The sky looked routine. The story below was already tragic. Then the news helicopter began to fall. Inside, the camera lurched, alarms sounded, and a terrified voice cut through the chaos. NBC4’s Eliana Moreno, covering another deadly crash, uttered one final, desperate question to her pilot before impact. Those words, now public, have left Los Angeles reeling in gri… Continues…

In seconds, a familiar tool of modern journalism became the center of its own breaking story. NewsChopper4, long a fixture in Los Angeles skies, dropped between commercial buildings and erupted into flames, killing reporter Eliana Moreno, pilot George Marciniw, and a person on the ground. Another victim was rushed to the hospital as firefighters battled the intense blaze and nearby vehicles burned.