On Thursday night's Channel 13 news, reporter Serene Branson filed a report a plane crash at a Cameron Park airport, saying that a witness, Walter Helm, "was first on the scene."
Uh, not quite.
Truly first on the scene was Fox40 reporter Lonnie Wong and photographer Albert Im, who just happened to be shooting B-roll (background footage) for a story about an earlier light plane crash at the airport when they filmed the fateful takeoff of the plane that killed two passengers and critical injured another two.
(Above is a screen grab from Fox40's footage seconds before the plane crashed.) To see Fox40's report, click here.
Fox40, naturally, realized its good fortune and led its newscast with the report, showing the takeoff and crash several times. It also had shots of EMT's trying to revive a passenger and other shots fresh on the scene that you usually don't see on local TV news.
The length of the report -- 3 minutes 45 seconds -- seemed a tad excessive. But, hey, Fox40 had the exclusive video.
As Woody Allen once said, 90 percent of life is just showing up.
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