Eliana Moreno was only thirty years old and had been flying with the same pilot since 2023, George Marciniw. That Tuesday night, they were covering an accident on Nordhoff Street for NBC4 and Telemundo 52, as they had so many times before: a Metro bus had collided with a vehicle and had already claimed two lives. They never imagined they would end up becoming part of the story.
Shortly before seven in the evening, the NewsChopper 4 helicopter crashed over the Chatsworth neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley. Anchor Colleen Williams said it live, her voice breaking: they had lost contact with their aircraft crew. Minutes later came the confirmation no one wanted to hear.
All three died: the journalist, the pilot, and a person who was on the ground, still not publicly identified. One day later, neither the NTSB nor the FAA has an answer about what went wrong. Two families of reporters who went to work and never came back, and a city demanding to know why.