4000 fpm with a sputtering engine. Not a controlled descent.
> 4000 fpm with a sputtering engine.
And the thing had two engines.
Yes, I think you are right Libh8er. It looked like he was attempting to maneuver into a controlled decent, but maybe at 600? feet, it just dropped like a rock spinning down into a free fall. I could be wrong, but I thought I saw a fire breakout at about 100 ft before it exploded in that fireball. I fear Kobe and the rest knew they weren’t going to make it long before they hit the ground. I hope Kobe was holding on to his daughter.
In SoCal the news has been covering the crash non-stop since 10am yesterday.
There are no reports of a sputtering engine or any other sort of engine trouble. Witnesses in Calabasas include a pilot. This was a twin engine helicopter that could fly on one engine if it had to.
This will be declared a controlled flight into terrain accident. The pilot was at 1085 feet and he never saw the 1700 foot hill he flew into. The lesson is don’t fly in low clouds and heavy fog because you can’t see. Just that simple.