Kobe Bryant dead?

[limitles]

Oh how horrible. You might as well go out young and rich with a rape case “behind” you

[Erin Micunt]

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)

You forgot stacy hamilton's dad

[Dan Druff]

I don't live far from the crash site, but not close enough to justify being in the neighborhood (they have a police checkpoint).

I'm trying to determine if there's a way I can park semi-nearby and hike in from the back.

Drones have also been banned from the area, as have all aircraft under 5000 feet.

[Shizzmoney]

The helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others that crashed into a rugged hillside outside Los Angeles was flying in foggy conditions considered dangerous enough that local police agencies grounded their choppers.

https://sports.inquirer.net/383507/k...box=1580110518

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[Sanlmar]

Shizz post

VFR is visual flight rules
IFR is instrument flight rules

Big deal made over VFR. Too bad

Not IFR rated pilot?

[Shizzmoney]

Looks like the 9 who died are:

Kobe Bryant
Gianna Bryant
Alyssa Altobelli - Gianna's Mamba Basketball Teammate
John Altobelli - Father of Alyssa
Keri Altobelli - Mom of Alyssa
Christina Mauser - Basketball Coach
Payton Chester - Gianna's Mamba Basketball Teammate
Sarah Chester - Mom of Payton
Ara Zobayan - Pilot

Bryant had coached Gianna’s AAU basketball team out of his Mamba Sports Academy training facility in Thousand Oaks for the past two years.

They were all reportedly headed to an AAU game when the crash happened.

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020...-was-on-board/

[duped_samaritan]

Lots of therapy going to be needed for the other girls on the team.

I don't live far from the crash site, but not close enough to justify being in the neighborhood (they have a police checkpoint).

I'm trying to determine if there's a way I can park semi-nearby and hike in from the back.

Drones have also been banned from the area, as have all aircraft under 5000 feet.

Why?

[Dan Druff]

Lots of therapy going to be needed for the other girls on the team.

I don't live far from the crash site, but not close enough to justify being in the neighborhood (they have a police checkpoint).

I'm trying to determine if there's a way I can park semi-nearby and hike in from the back.

Drones have also been banned from the area, as have all aircraft under 5000 feet.

Why?

Because it's close to me and I'm interested in seeing it.

[TheXFactor]

You'll have to dress as a police officer or make a jacket that says NTSB in order to get close to that crash site.

[TheXFactor]

I guess this is the real crash video of Kobe Bryant's helicopter crash although no TV media is showing it yet.

Here is again but it shows a few seconds before the helicopter starts spinning around.

[PuppyMonkeyBaby]

I guess this is the real crash video of Kobe Bryant's helicopter crash although no TV media is showing it yet.

Here is again but it shows a few seconds before the helicopter starts spinning around.

Logged into the wrong account instead of my normal account didn't feel like fixing.. Doesn't matter.. This video isn't what it claims to be.. Area of the crash was indeed hilly/mountainous but the crash also ignited a brush fire there is zero brush in that area.. That video is from another incident clearly.. According to reports its from the middle east when a helicopter clipped a power line over in Dubai back in 2017..

[Shizzmoney]

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[Tellafriend]

it also isn't foggy. another photo showed his heli as black too. I don't think so.

[Dan Druff]

I was driving by the area at 6am so I went down there. As expected, the police have a blockade at the major intersection leading to it (Las Virgenes Road and Lost Hills Road, on the border of Agoura Hills and Calabasas).

There is a sidewalk which leads up to some water company facility, and right behind that facility is where the crash occurred. At 6am, they were not blocking off the footpath -- only the road.

It might be possible to walk up there, though I do wonder if when it's light outside (meaning not 6am), cops will be there chasing gawkers away.

I also wonder what's still there. Hard for me to believe it's completely cleaned up yet.

I kinda want to try.

[Dan Druff]

Yeah, nothing is cleaned up yet, except perhaps the bodies.

NTSB got there an hour after I took that pic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...investigation/

Probably won't bother going down today. I'm guessing NTSB will chase me away the second they see me.

[Dan Druff]

Kobe said in an interview a few years ago that he started taking helicopters instead of driving within southern California as a player, and then continued after he retired.

Traffic started getting really, really bad and I wound up missing, like, a school play. These things just kept mounting and I had to figure out a way where I could still train and focus on the craft [of basketball] but still not compromise family time. That’s when I looked into helicopters, to get down and back in 15 minutes. That’s when it started.

My routine was always the same: weights early in the morning, kids to school, fly down to practice like crazy, do my extra work, meet with the media, do everything I needed to do, get back in the carpool line to pick the kids up [from school.] My wife was like, ‘Listen, I can pick them up.’ I was like, 'No, no, no. I want to do that because … every chance I get to be with them, even if it’s just 20 minutes in a car, I want that.

So apparently he was constantly flying in helicopters, and finally one of them donked down.

[GambleBotsChafedPenis]

curious how long it would take to get from his home to the tournament on a sunday morning?

is LA traffic that bad 24/7 that even on a sunday morning a helicopter would be the preferred method of getting around?

[GrenadaRoger]

well, you would think traffic on the weekends would be minimal

but no

if CALTRANS isn't out bottlenecking the freeways with road repair (done during non-commute hours) then there is a concert/sport event/amusement park, beach traffic or some idiot breaking down

its just about impossible to go more than 20 miles on the freeways without hitting a traffic jam...and the town is spread out such that you have to go 30 miles to everything

[TheXFactor]

L.A. traffic can be insanely bad especially on the 405 freeway.