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    I have been on exactly one helicopter in my life. It was a sight seeing tour over the Hudson River in NYC. When I say never again, that is an understatement to the nth degree. Okay?

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by OSA View Post
    Reports say that Kobe had a basketball in his hands and had a choice to pass the ball and grab the controls or hold onto the ball.


    I guess we know what he decided.

    Aired on Comedy Central in 2016.


     
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    Quote Originally Posted by WillieMcFML View Post
    i remember a guy who grew up in hawaii telling me to never take a heli-tour if i ever go there

    supposedly they crash ALL THE TIME but they manage to keep most of them out of the newspapers/news as to not hurt tourism
    Went on one of those hawaii heli tours ~2003 when I was a little kid. Actually flew over the the jungle where they filmed Jurassic Park.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krypt View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by WillieMcFML View Post
    i remember a guy who grew up in hawaii telling me to never take a heli-tour if i ever go there

    supposedly they crash ALL THE TIME but they manage to keep most of them out of the newspapers/news as to not hurt tourism
    Went on one of those hawaii heli tours ~2003 when I was a little kid. Actually flew over the the jungle where they filmed Jurassic Park.
    ATV tour is the way to go on this one.

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    I’m so far behind on my Bill Simmons podcasts.

    A Boston take on a Laker.

    Saving the Kobe pod for tonight. It’s a tricky eulogy. He will nail the right tone.

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    You can never go wrong with a little Bill Burr

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    Quote Originally Posted by tgull View Post
    I have been on exactly one helicopter in my life. It was a sight seeing tour over the Hudson River in NYC. When I say never again, that is an understatement to the nth degree. Okay?
    Too each his own. I was in one once for about a 30 minute ride courtesy of my girlfriend’s brother who ran a resort golf course on the northwestern coast of France. Loved it! But I’d done skydiving before and after that and loved that too. But I was too cheap to continue it as a hobby after graduating to completing a few freefalls.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BCR View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by OSA View Post
    Reports say that Kobe had a basketball in his hands and had a choice to pass the ball and grab the controls or hold onto the ball.


    I guess we know what he decided.

    Aired on Comedy Central in 2016.

    YouTube removed the video...

    Here it is again...


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    Quote Originally Posted by nunbeater View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Gordman View Post
    Oh boy

    lol she said nakers not n-words, shut it down Gordo

    HEY

    She said n-word, and she meant it.

    Don't ruin this for us.

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    Kobe Bryant’s helicopter was like a limousine and had a strong safety record, NBA star’s former pilot says

    https://www.latimes.com/california/s...said?_amp=true

    The helicopter that crashed Sunday morning in Calabasas, killing Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others on board, had the feel of a limousine and boasted a strong safety record, said the basketball star’s former pilot.

    Kurt Deetz, a former pilot for Island Express Helicopters, told The Times he flew Bryant from 2014 to 2016. Nine times out of 10, he said, Bryant flew in “Two Echo X-ray” — the Sikorsky S-76B, tail No. N72EX, that went down Sunday morning. When Bryant retired from the NBA in 2016, he flew out of downtown Los Angeles in the same helicopter, wrapped in a gray-and-black paint scheme with his Mamba emblem on the side, Deetz said.

    Deetz, who said he spent more than 1,000 hours flying the craft that crashed Sunday, called its condition “fantastic.” Island Express follows a “very good maintenance program,” he said. The helicopter was owned by Island Express, according to Deetz.

    Bryant favored the S-76B, Deetz said, which he compared to “a Cadillac, a limousine — it’s limo-esque.” The model is preferred by celebrities and known as comfortable and safe, he said. Its sister model, the S-76A, “is more like a work truck,” he said.
    The Helicopter had a strong safety record, right before it crashed.


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    If you think this crash was an "accident", then you'll obviously believe anything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gordman View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by nunbeater View Post

    lol she said nakers not n-words, shut it down Gordo

    HEY

    She said n-word, and she meant it.

    Don't ruin this for us.
    Someone just lost their job.

    LOl she 1000% says it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Not flying the drone today, were you?

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    Kobe makes it 3 famous helicopter crash deaths in Los Angeles history: the other two were air traffic reporters

    1 - Captain Max Schumaker, 1st of the air traffic reporters (started in 1959)...he crashed & died in 1980 or so - KMPC radio

    2 - Francis Gary Powers, another helicopter traffic reporter that died in the 1980's...Gary Powers is the same person that was shot down over the USSR piloting the U2 spyplane during the Eisenhower administration


    (another longtime LA air traffic reporter, Bruce Wayne, also died while traffic reporting, but he flew a Cessna airplane)

     
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      Hockey Guy: My daughter did traffic reporting from a helicopter for over a year. She was scared every day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by badguy23 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Gordman View Post


    HEY

    She said n-word, and she meant it.

    Don't ruin this for us.
    Someone just lost their job.

    LOl she 1000% says it
    She definitely says it, but it also sounds a little unnatural, or edited.

    OSA, your friend used to phone in and say n-word all the time, can they confirm?

    And where's Detective Druff when we need him?
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    Quote Originally Posted by zealanddonk View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by badguy23 View Post

    Someone just lost their job.

    LOl she 1000% says it
    She definitely says it, but it also sounds a little unnatural, or edited.

    OSA, your friend used to phone in and say n-word all the time, can they confirm?

    And where's Detective Druff when we need him?
    I can ask my friend, but he charges by the hr now for his expert testimony

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    Quote Originally Posted by zealanddonk View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by badguy23 View Post

    Someone just lost their job.

    LOl she 1000% says it
    She definitely says it, but it also sounds a little unnatural, or edited.

    OSA, your friend used to phone in and say n-word all the time, can they confirm?

    And where's Detective Druff when we need him?
    FTR, I was being sarcastic on my last post, in case anyone was lost and really thought I believed she actually said/meant it. I was merely being sarcastic because of Nunbeaters response toward me obv not reading everything.

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    If you fly 1 hour in a helicopter, your chances of having any kind of accident, even just a minor one, is 0.00439%. The average fatalities per 100,000 flight hours was 1.44. Therefore, if you are already in a helicopter crash (extremely rare), your chances of surviving in that crash are roughly 2 in 3.
    Those are good odds.

    Too bad Kobe Bryant couldn't beat those odds.

    Flying is safer than driving a car.


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    I used to fly in a chopper as a regular part of my job. Super fun to fly in.

    I worked with 2 guys that survived what would be considered a crash landing caused by engine failure due to contaminated fuel. Luckily it was right after takeoff & they weren't very high & landed in about 3-4 feet of water with a soft bottom.

     
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    I'd say good luck in the freeroll but I'm pretty sure you'll go on a bender to self-sabotage yourself & miss it completely or use it as the excuse of why you didn't cash.

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    How the fuck is Lamar Odom still alive? Life ain’t fair people.

     
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      Hockey Guy: He couldn't afford helicopters.
    #ToddsPlan

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