( CNN ) -- Former CBS News correspondent Bruce Dunning died Monday from injuries suffered in a fall , CBS News said . He was 73 . The longtime foreign correspondent retired in 2005 after 35 years at CBS News . He spent most of his career reporting from Asia , where he opened the Beijing bureau in 1981 , and became the network 's Tokyo-based Asia bureau chief in 1989 , CBS said . Dunning was best known for a 1975 report on the last flight out of Da Nang toward the end of the Vietnam War , the network said . His video showed throngs of people storming the plane , hoping for a ride . He returned to Vietnam to cover the 10th and 20th anniversaries of the fall of South Vietnam , CBS said . Dunning earned degrees from Princeton and Columbia University . He began his career as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida , CBS said . He lived in Union City , New Jersey and died at Mt . Sinai Hospital in Manhattan . Dunning is survived by his partner , Tetsunori Kawana , a brother and his sister-in-law , CBS said . People we 've lost in 2013 .
Bruce Dunning worked at CBS News for 35 years . He died Monday from injuries suffered in a fall , the network says . The accident happened on his way to work when he fell and hit his head while crossing an intersection near New York City's Times Square.