LA helicopter crash victims: Reporter Eliana Moreno, a soon-to-retire pilot and a young tourist

Eliana Moreno, an aerial photojournalist-reporter, was engaged to be married. George Marciniw, a veteran pilot, was planning on retiring soon. But Moreno won’t be able to walk down the aisle dressed in white, and Marciniw won’t relish in the downtime he had worked so hard and long for. The news helicopter team was killed in a crash Tuesday evening in a commercial part of Los Angeles. Edy Gutierrez Mejia, a young tourist from Guatemala, had arrived in L.A. hours before being fatally struck by the helicopter when it crashed into a business parking lot. At least two others were taken to the hospital with injuries, officials said.
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