Witness reveals NBC helicopters bizarre movements moments before it fell out of the sky

A witness has revealed the bizarre movements of an NBC helicopter moments before it lost altitude and plunged into a Los Angeles parking lot—killing both onboard and a person on the ground.“Something didn’t look right,” witness Zareh Sevanesian told NBC4 after Tuesday evening’s horror crash in Chatsworth.“And, I told my wife, that helicopter’s not flying right.It was swaying and all of the sudden it started losing altitude.

It just kept getting lower and lower and lower and lower.” The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.Please provide a valid email.

By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.Never miss a story Sevanesian said he eventually lost sight of NewsChopper4 behind buildings before seeing a massive burst of smoke and flames erupt from the parking lot of a storage business.“It was just this huge puff of smoke and fire,” he said.

“It was just so hot and so on fire that I couldn’t approach it.”The helicopter went down shortly before 7 p.m., killing pilot George Marciniw and NBC4 and Telemundo 52 journalist Eliana Moreno.A pedestrian on the ground, who was named Wednesday morning as Edy Gutierrez Mejia, 19, also died.

Telemundo 52 spoke with a man who identified himself as the victim’s cousin and said they were visiting from Guatemala.Marciniw and Moreno had been covering a separate deadly collision between a Metro bus and an SUV in Chatsworth, which had killed at least two people earlier Tuesday afternoon.The chopper took off from a nearby airport at about 5:20 p.m., roughly 20 minutes after the bus crash was reported.Its signal was lost just before 7 p.m.A livestream from the helicopter captured its harrowing final moments, with a warning horn sounding as the aircraft appeared to struggle in the air.“Uh, oh,” Moreno could be heard saying as the alarm sounded.The helicopter’s low rotor RPM annunciator horn blared for...