Sounds like the fog was quite heavy and some helo flights were grounded. That being said, low morning cloud is typical for the coastal parts of LA so I am not sure it was more then usual.
Basketball in general is wildly popular in the Philippines. They have the record for longest basketball game ever played. If the Philipinos are playing at Repsol, forget it. You'll never get a hoop.
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Apparently there's a radio transmission of his helicopter with air traffic control (I guess?) It doesn't point to one thing in particular though one of the last communications from ATC was they were possibly too low (though some in the comments point to that as transmission and not altitude). Do helicopters have black boxes?
Air Traffic Control states they are "too low for flight following", which is a form of air traffic information that can be provided to general aviation aircraft. That statement from ATC in no way is telling the helicopter that it is too low in altitude.
Basketball in general is wildly popular in the Philippines. They have the record for longest basketball game ever played. If the Philipinos are playing at Repsol, forget it. You'll never get a hoop.
Yeah, I work with 2 Filipino guys and they are basketball crazy.
I am not really a huge basketball fan, but I do find it incredibly sad. As someone else mentioned, it wasn't like some playboy gallivanting around in decadence. Which still would have been sad of course, but this was daddy daughter quality time that ended in tragedy.
I have to admit, if I had a networth of $600,000,000, I would probably take a helicopter anywhere I could.
Say what you want about Kobe, but you can tell he loved his children more than anything.
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does anyone know if helicopters have black boxes - none of the stories i have read mention anything with respect to this
I'd be surprised if it did, just like most small aircraft do not carry one. But they have good audio and decent radar coverage. That plus the wreckage analysis will likely lead to a conclusion of what happened. My speculation only but it they were Special VFR the weather will be a major factor. And if they were too low for ATC to see them for flight following then I'd wager CFIT right now as the primary cause . Controlled flight into terrain.
Eighteen seconds after beginning the turn, the helicopter had lost 800 feet and returned to an easterly heading. But what the pilot had failed to reckon with is that the ground rose not only straight ahead, but on the sides as well. The S-76B had impacted a hillside above the Los Virgenes Municipal Water District facility at a speed of 170 mph.
Self-driving cars get all the attention, but how many small aircraft accidents will be avoided once planes and helicopters become self flying? You hear about Cessna's and helicopters crashing quite frequently, and almost always the cause is some kind of pilot error
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It's not, but Halladay died at age 40 not too long ago in a plane crash. You wonder about these small crafts and the danger that they may pose as athletes use them more and more.
Golf professional Payne Stewart, at the age of 42, also perished in a plane crash (learjet).
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Everything about Kobe Bryant and his daughter because he happened to excel at basketball. "Tonight is for Kobe" was the mantra of the Grammys.
I appreciate its early and for privacy reasons there has not been much coverage of the others who died, but their lives are reduced to footnotes in this tragedy.
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