Seattle helicopter crash: Eyewitness roundup

The crash of a KOMO-TV chopper killed two people in downtown Seattle this morning. Here, a collection of eyewitness accounts.

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Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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The crash of a KOMO-TV chopper killed two people in downtown Seattle this morning. Here, a collection of eyewitness accounts.

[View the story "Eyewitness view of KOMO helicopter crash" on Storify]

By Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow is a Seattle-based freelance writer who talks with people — in places from urban watersheds to remote wildernesses — about the environment around them. She’s been working in journal