Does anyone know if Kobe was the PILOT?????
The MSM has danced around avoiding this question for two days....................
Wow, Kobe took a lot of good people with him.
Let’s hear the good stuff about them.
I’m tired already of all the kobe worshiping on the news.
It’s tempting to say that it was unnecessarily risky to fly a helicopter in that weather but fog is not unusual during winter in some parts of CA. Driving a car may well be statistically more of a risk.
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.
It’s always shocking to have a major celebrity die in an accident.
Our local radio station was talking endlessly about it. I kept waiting for advice to the young about making “risky decisions.”
Flying a helicopter in heavy fog is risky; so is driving drunk, using alcohol or drugs, or vaping.
But, no mention of any of that.
Car would have worked. Understand they were going to T.O., which is a 20 min. drive.
Car would have worked. Understand they were going to T.O., which is a 20 min. drive.
When well known folks are involved in tragedies the ordinary folks who sometimes die along with them tend to be forgotten.
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.