SEATTLE — Hey everyone, there's a good chance El Nino might be around for next winter! California: "Yay! The expected heavy rains next winter should help our drought!" Midwest and East Coast: "Yay! It likely means no
SEATTLE — Witnesses said the KOMO-TV News helicopter that crashed near the Space Needle Tuesday made a screeching or “whining” noise when it first lifted off the station's helipad, National Transportation Safety Board investigators say. The helicopter
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,
KOMO-TV employees were working at their desks Tuesday morning when they heard tree branches snapping, then car horns sounding. They rushed to their windows and watched in horror as a helicopter carrying two of their colleagues burned. Then they
Throughout the morning Tuesday, reporters and anchors for KOMO-TV in Seattle have updated viewers on the helicopter crash that killed two inside the station's news helicopter. They often did so with shaky voices. Reporting on the scene after the crash,