News helicopter crash report released

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PHOENIX (AP) -- Federal investigators have released a series of reports about the midair collision of two Phoenix TV news helicopters last year.

National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Keith Holloway says the reports released Thursday don't determine a cause or place blame for the crash that killed four journalists. That will come from analysis by investigators and presented to the NTSB board in the coming months.

The choppers from KNXV-TV and KTVK-TV were covering a Phoenix police chase on July 27, 2007 when they collided over a park and plunged to the ground. A pilot and news photographer on each aircraft was killed.

The NTSB's preliminary accident report said witnesses indicated the KTVK helicopter was relatively stationary and the KNXV helicopter was maneuvering.