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Girls’ basketball coach Christina Mauser IDed as victim in Kobe Bryant crash
NY Post ^ | January 26, 2020 | 9:52pm | By Joe Tacopino

Posted on 01/27/2020 6:43:06 AM PST by Red Badger

A girls’ basketball coach was identified as one of the fatalities in the crash that killed Kobe Bryant and his daughter Sunday, officials said.

Christina Mauser — who worked at a private school in Orange County, California — was among nine people killed instantly when their helicopter crashed in Calabasas, according to Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley.

“My kids and I are devastated,” Christina’s husband, Matt Mauser, wrote on Facebook.

“We lost our beautiful wife and mom today in a helicopter crash. Please respect our privacy. Thank you for all the well wishes they mean so much.”

Also killed in the crash along with Bryant, 41, and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were college baseball coach John Altobelli, his daughter Alyssa Altobelli

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To: VanDeKoik

All the money you could need, a happy family, years of life ahead of you, the ability to charter a helicopter to take you places.

None of that protects you from something like this.

He and I are the same age, and boy did this really gut-punch me


same here... i’m the same age within a few days of Kobe.. have 3 daughters of my own, etc. not a basketball fan, but this one hit me.


61 posted on 01/27/2020 7:37:17 AM PST by Levy78
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To: VanDeKoik

I’m a little older and I live here in Marin County and this immediately reminded me of the Bill Graham helicopter crash in 1991

Almost the exact same situation - horrible conditions ; should not of been flying ; did not need to do it ; short trip - dead

I for one will never ever get in a helicopter because I lived on Kauai for a while and I hated seeing all those stupid helicopters that had sightseeing people in them ruining my peace and quiet


62 posted on 01/27/2020 7:38:17 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Kozy

Maybe the hit something and fatally wounded the helicopter before it crashed.


63 posted on 01/27/2020 7:38:55 AM PST by EVO X
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To: SaxxonWoods

Pilots think the “sputtering” was the pilot trying to pull up in desperation when he saw the side of the hill.

Helo had two engines, no way they both went out. Helo on of the best, they doubt mechanical problem.


64 posted on 01/27/2020 7:39:07 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: VanDeKoik
He and I are the same age, and boy did this really gut-punch me.

He was a bit younger than my older son, a bit older than my younger son. We have grandkids 12 and 10. So it did hit home, especially his young daughter.

65 posted on 01/27/2020 7:39:35 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: logi_cal869; EEGator

Most conservatives are genuinely classy decent people. Yet during incidents like this, the nasty underbelly of jealous, bitter so-called conservative’s always crawl out of the woodwork. You’re a perfect example of one


66 posted on 01/27/2020 7:40:33 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: Red Badger
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67 posted on 01/27/2020 7:42:09 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: SaxxonWoods; JimRed

Reminds me of the hoopla in the wake of the Patsy Cline crash:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Cline#Death


68 posted on 01/27/2020 7:42:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Was at a pilot site last night. Charted helo, he didn’t own onw anymore. Pilots in general agreement that this was a CFIT, “controlled flight into ground”. Flight path shows plane circled for about 11 minutes waiting for space to fly in. May have lost directional awareness.

Pilot flew north and made left turn into higher terrain. Fog level was below hilltops. Flying way too fast, 150 mph, for visual conditions. Not on instruments, which is a bit of a mystery.

Ground photo indicates CFIT too. Pilots all very sad. Kobe was long-time helo user, probably because safer and faster than dealing with the traffic. They shouldn’t have flown this day obviously.


agree, really poor decision on the part of the helo pilot. he obviously got disoriented, etc. shouldn’t have been in the air in the first place. pilot’s lack of respect for the situation killed 8 other people, including 3 kids.


69 posted on 01/27/2020 7:42:56 AM PST by Levy78
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To: bigdaddy45

Yes, you are right. Kobe probably started flying because it’s fast and statistically safer than driving. But statistics don’t always work out. That’s why a few people do win the lottery. This was the bad lottery.


70 posted on 01/27/2020 7:43:47 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: Red Badger

“Reminds me of the hoopla in the wake of the Patsy Cline crash:”

And Stevie Ray Vaughn. I don’t remember the cause of that crash.


71 posted on 01/27/2020 7:46:42 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Stevie_Ray_Vaughan


72 posted on 01/27/2020 7:49:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Levy78; All

Also, no mayday or trouble call. No time, he flew it right into the side of hill. The photo shows that, as the pilots noted.


73 posted on 01/27/2020 7:50:07 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

He said flying made him fresher for the Laker games.


74 posted on 01/27/2020 7:51:29 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Leep

Very sad photo

looks like three families devastated....

Hard to image losing two daughters (Chester) at the same time and a whole family (Altobelli) at once.


75 posted on 01/27/2020 7:52:02 AM PST by Popman
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To: bigdaddy45

Most conservatives are genuinely classy decent people. Yet during incidents like this, the nasty underbelly of jealous, bitter so-called conservative’s always crawl out of the woodwork.


I’ve noticed same. Celebrity deaths seems to bring out the bigots and cranks among us.

I read Bryant’s $6 million investment in a sports drink company was recently valued at $200 million. This guy could have been doing anything under the sun yesterday other coaching girls basketball but he chose to do that. To make a judgement on his life based on one incident from 20 years ago is total nonsense.


76 posted on 01/27/2020 7:52:09 AM PST by lodi90
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To: gcparent

I read that as well. The helicopter belonged to a rental company.


77 posted on 01/27/2020 7:52:14 AM PST by EnquiringMind
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To: Red Badger

Thanks. Same damn thing, how about that.


78 posted on 01/27/2020 7:56:08 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: Truthoverpower

My daughter and I took one of those helicopter rides in Maui. Other family members declined. Never been in one since. That tour company crashed a helicopter the week after our tour.


79 posted on 01/27/2020 7:56:49 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Did you read the part where it wasn’t discovered until the next morning?.............


80 posted on 01/27/2020 7:57:58 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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