Colleagues and friends of veteran KCBS cameraman Larry Greene are paying tribute to his courage and professionalism after his death in a helicopter accident in the North Arabian Gulf. He was 50. Greene, a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles CBS flagship station, was on board a Navy helicopter that was on "normal maritime interdiction operations" when it crashed Friday, killing Greene and injuring four sailors. The aircraft, attached to the USS Mobile Bay, was hovering over a Syrian-flagged vessel to observe a health inspection boarding when the rotor blade struck the ship's mast, a Navy spokesman said. Greene, a multiple-award-winning photojournalist, was on assignment to the Middle East with KCBS reporter Randy Paige. They were preparing stories for broadcast as part of the station's commemoration of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a spokesman for the station said. Paige was not on board the helicopter.
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