Two helicopters collide midair near Oregon airport

🗞️ Story file #1159

Two helicopters collide midair near Oregon airport

Oct 29, 11 PM ET to Oct 30, 6 AM ET

14outlets carried it
🫏7 · 3 · 4🐘left · center · right
7 hourson the front pages
14front pages at once, at its peak
62 sof TV captions
3radio newscasts

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 29, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: ABC News
Oct 30, 1 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 30, 1 AM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 30, 5 AM ETpeak: on 14 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 29, 11 PM to Oct 30, 6 AM ET (peak 14), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “3 dead in midair crash of 2 helicopters near Oregon airport: Sheriff” → “3 dead in midair crash of 2 helicopters: Sheriff”
AP (2 wordings): “3 killed in helicopters collision that shut down an Oregon highway” → “3 killed in helicopter collision that shut down part of an Oregon highway”
Fox News (3 wordings): “Oregon highway closes after 2 helicopters collide near municipal airport” → “Three killed in midair helicopter collision near Oregon airport, authorities confirm”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Two helicopters collide near Oregon airport” → “3 dead after 2 helicopters collide near Oregon airport”

Every outlet's first headline (14), left to right by AllSides rating