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Failure to ‘See and Avoid’ Caused News Chopper Midair

Steve Scott

Monday, February 9th, 2009

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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says the 2007 midair collision involving two electronic news gathering (ENG) helicopters in Phoenix, AZ was both pilots' failure to 'see and avoid' the other rotorcraft. But contributing to the fatal midair collision was the pilots' need to perform both reporting and flying (visual tracking) duties to support their station's news gathering operation, the Safety Board said in its probable cause determination. Also contributing to the accident was the lack of formal procedures for…

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