- February 26, 2021, 12:14 PM
On February 9, the NTSB held a public meeting on the crash of a Sikorsky S-76B that killed the pilot and eight occupants. As helicopter crashes go, other than killing superstar athlete Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and family friends, this one held few surprises. In a scenario that has been played out many times before, this accident flight included scud running, inadvertent flight into IMC, spatial disorientation, loss of control, and a tragic loss of life.
The obvious question here, as the late Matt Zuccaro said many times before, why don’t they just “land the damn helicopter?” Pilots need to take advantage of the most unique and valuable characteristics of vertical flight and just “land and live” rather than continually flying into bad weather.
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Vanessa Bryant, wife of the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant has slammed rapper, Meek Mill over his recent rap that she described as humiliating to her husband’s memory.
The rapper released the lines of his latest rap song, where he used the name of the late legend in a way that Mrs Bryant doesn’t find appealing.
Mill who released part of the rap through his Instagram story posted, “Yeah, if I ever lack, I’m goin’ out with my chopper, it be another Kobe.”
However, Vanessa, a widow to the deceased, while reacting to the rap song told Meek she finds the line “extremely insensitive and disrespectful.”
Cause of Fatal Helicopter Crash That Killed Kobe Bryant Announced, Disoriented Pilot Determined to be Primary Factor
Findings from U.S. safety investigators reported Tuesday that a pilot flew through clouds in an apparent violation of federal standards and was likely disoriented right before the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven other victims.
During a virtual meeting of the panel to issue its conclusions about the causes of the crash, Robert Sumwalt, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said that pilot Ara Zobayan was “flying under visual flight rules, meaning he needed to be able to see where he was going.”
A damning report by the National Transportation Safety Board released on Tuesday said the pilot became disoriented and didn't follow rules for flying .
WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Tuesday cited the pilot’s “poor decision making” as the probable cause of the January 2020 helicopter crash that killed retired NBA star Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others, saying the pilot became disoriented and did not follow rules for flying in cloudy weather. The NTSB cited pilot Ara Zobayan’s “poor decision to fly in excess of airspeed”. It said the …