Or the pilot was flying at a fixed altitude, got lost in the fog, and didn't realize that the ground was coming up on him.
-PJ
According to Fox News Kobe was not the pilot.
My pilot buddy calls this kind of crash a CFIT, Controlled flight into terrain.
“A controlled flight into terrain is an accident in which an airworthy aircraft, under pilot control, is unintentionally flown into the ground, a mountain, a body of water or an obstacle. In a typical CFIT scenario, the crew is unaware of the impending disaster until it is too late.”
That is what some witnesses have said, that the helicopter was flying way too low, they didnt understand why it was flying so low, I guess like you said, just got lost in the fog
it’s known as spatial disorientation...