A news helicopter crashed Tuesday evening in a commercial part of Los Angeles, killing three people \u2013 including the veteran pilot and an aerial photojournalist-reporter \u2013 and leaving others injured, officials said. \u200c
\nThe Eurocopter AS350, working for stations NBC4 and Telemundo 52, crashed while providing coverage of a fatal bus collision in Chatsworth, a suburban neighborhood about 25 miles northwest of downtown, the stations said. \u200c<\/p>\n
NBC4 anchor Colleen Williams confirmed live on air that the crash involved its helicopter team \u2013 telling viewers, \u201cWe are going to take a couple of minutes to think about that, to process and to regroup\u201d \u2013 before the station switched temporarily to other programming.<\/p>\n
0:00 Tragedy as three people killed after a news helicopter crashes
\n2:53 Transportation analyst analyzes the probable cause
\n5:46 The latest on the investigation<\/p>\n