{"id":401631,"date":"2026-09-16T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401631\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:18:10","slug":"2000-nbc6-chopper-tragedy-in-miami-remembered-after-nbc-l-a-helicopter-crash-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401631\/","title":{"rendered":"2000 NBC6 chopper tragedy in Miami remembered after NBC L.A. helicopter crash \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 26 years before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/national-international\/helicopter-crashes-in-chatsworth\/3859839\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/national-international\/helicopter-crashes-in-chatsworth\/3859839\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tuesday&#8217;s fatal crash of an NBC Los Angeles news helicopter<\/a>, NBC6 suffered a similar tragedy in South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>It was the afternoon of March 3, 2000, when NBC6 photojournalist Rob Pierce and pilot Ruben Rivero were killed in a crash in southwest Miami-Dade.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce, who&#8217;d won multiple awards for his work covering hurricanes and breaking news, was just 34. Rivero was 42.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/091626-Rob-Pierce.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Rob Pierce\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tNBC6NBC6<\/p>\n<p>Rob Pierce<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s crash claimed the lives of NBC4 Los Angeles reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw, as well as a person on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 26 years before Tuesday&#8217;s fatal crash of an NBC Los Angeles news helicopter, NBC6 suffered a similar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-401631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}