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?
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?
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.
You can never go wrong with a little Bill Burr
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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.
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 had a strong safety record, right before it crashed.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.
If you think this crash was an "accident", then you'll obviously believe anything.
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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2024: Dustin Morgan wins Chrissy's $1000 contest
Those are good odds.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.
Too bad Kobe Bryant couldn't beat those odds.
Flying is safer than driving a car.
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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