According to NBC News, the chopper, a Eurocopter AS350, was on loan from Helicopter Inc. of Cahokia, Ill., while KOMO's regular one had new equipment installed. Gary Pfitzer, the chopper's pilot, and Bill Strothman,
SEATTLE – Former longtime KOMO News photographer Bill Strothman and pilot Gary Pfitzner were identified Tuesday as the two victims killed in the crash of the station's news helicopter. They were remembered by co-workers as a professional team who
In this image made from video provided by KOMO-TV, smoke rises from the scene of a news helicopter crash outside the KOMO-TV studios near the space needle in Seattle, Tuesday, March 18, 2014, in Seattle. The station says the copter was apparently
The victims were identified by KOMO as photojournalist Bill Strothman and pilot Gary Pfitzner. Bill Strothman won 13 Emmy awards over his career as a news photographer. “One of things I loved about Bill Strothman is the
A helicopter belonging to Seattle ABC News affiliate KOMO 4 crashed near the city's iconic Space Needle on Tuesday morning, killing the two people inside and critically injuring a third individual who was in a car at the site of the crash, according to