Crashing on the job

Olivier Laurent  has an article in Time about Iraq:

A helicopter delivering aid to Yazidi civilians crashed in Northern Iraq, killing its pilot and injuring several passengers including photographer Moises Saman, an award-winning Magnum photographer on assignment for Time.
Speaking shortly after the crash, Saman explained that the helicopter crashed soon after having picked up internally displaced Iraqis of the Yazidi ethnicity. The photographer was pinned down by the weight of some of the passengers for a while, but suffered just a minor cut on his head, which was later treated at a hospital in Dohuk.
Another photographer, Adam Ferguson, and The New York Times’ Paris bureau chief Alissa J. Rubin, were also on board and sustained minor injuries. “If we had been another fifty meters higher we’d all be dead,” Ferguson told The Times.

Rico says he always thought that being a war photographer (like Carl Mydans, whom Rico knew when he was young) would be a great job, and it is, if you live...