13 October 2008
John Downhower
Air accident
SkyEye 13 pilot John Downhower and photographer Dave Garrett were killed when the chopper went down in a wooded area near the intersection of FM 1488 and Peoples Road yesterday.
SkyEye, which is owned by Helicopters Inc. and leased to Metro, had been covering a shoot-out in southwest Montgomery County. The last images fed in to Channel 13 before the crash show the landing skid as the helicopter banked hard to the right.
