How to check for a helicopter incident?
I was driving in Renton, WA a couple of hours ago and I saw a helicopter, north of me, dropping vertically very, very quickly. It was a few miles away, and it went behind a building before I could see if it recovered.
It was falling with such speed that I can't imagine it was a normal descent. My thought was that it, hopefully, was doing an autorotation, and would slow before it landed, because if it continued down at that rate I was witnessing, it certainly looked like a crash in progress.
Anyway, nothing showing on the local news sites or *******, so hopefully what I saw was unusual but not a newsworthy incident.
Is there any kind of site that has close to real-time reporting of accidents/incidents that might report if there was an autorotation or crash? What I saw was really disturbing, and I'd feel a lot better knowing it wasn't a crash or injury situation.