I never thought auto rotation was a comforting thought in a helicopter engine failure, if that is what happened here.
Since he is a Trump bashing leftard loon, then I don’t care. GOOD RIDDANCE to bad rubbish
My grandson plays soccer, football and basketball. As near as I can gather, basketball is his favorite game. He's 11 going on 12 and pretty good at it. He is always pretty high on Kobe Bryant.
I have always been able to pull his chain when I told him Kobe Bryant isn't good enough to tie Larry Bird's shoes. At first that made him madder than aytch-eee-double-toothpicks. When he finally understood that I was playing with him he argued without getting angry. We have had some great sports conversations when he learned to play along, then get serious.
In his life, it seemed to me that Kobe Bryant put his money, for real, where his mouth was.
This story makes me sick.
Press conference any minute https://youtu.be/55ulg5-NmjE
9 people on board...
Why do you all worship sports? Crazy!
Didn’t Kennedy go down in his plane in adverse conditions?
Woah.
And his 13-year old daughter. (And the pilot and two others)
RIP, very sad.
“VASAviation” YouTuber has the ATC comms posted....the loops over Glendale were a 15+ minute holding pattern for other traffic.
I am not one of these people who thinks there is nothing admirable in athletic achievement, nor that it is impossible for someone to ask for forgiveness and deserve it, but if it were a just world all Mr. Bryant”s obituaries would begin “Kobe Bryant, who admitted raping a woman in Colorado even as he in the end faced no consequences for it, died today in Los Angeles in a helicopter crash.” That most of the commentary today (not per se on FR) has been about what a swell basketball player he was is a sign that morally we are not a serious people. Rape is a very serious crime, and that someone could get away with it because he was a great athlete in no way alters that.
Decent men know that no means no. By this criterion Kobe Bryant, who AFAIK never apologized in person to the woman in CO whose life he presumably destroyed and who might have raped other women, lived a disgraceful life because of the CO incident. If he were a decent man, after escaping legal consequences for raping that woman he would have apologized personally and then gone on to work to help men not rape women as he did. IOW, should have lived the life worthy of someone who got away with a disgraceful crime.
RIP Kobe Bryant.
You can read the wiki page about the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case. Pretty graphic. Either way, only the two in the room know exactly what happened. If he were not married at the time, I could not care less. But I don’t condone adultery.