@Teddy Li that is so true. I'm flight attendant and I was asking our pilots what they thought 1st thing the weather was not good 2nd (not saying Kobe was like this) but celebrities dont care and want to be somewhere at this time no questions asked. 3rd its weird how the pilot veered off
@Kewana Nedd I think so too. He was finally cleared to take off, but according to one experienced pilot he may have become disoriented. No amount of money would be enough to get in a helicopter with weather like that.
@@PFlower15 It's true. We all know it's the law and that no one lives forever. But this a tragedy that perhaps could have been avoided, if only someone had the foresight to meticulously check the weather, check to see why the police helicopters were not flying that day. And a wise pilot might have said; hey, let's turn back because things don't look too good?
pikenova48 I think that’s where the problem intensified.. it was too late to go back and with having that route mapped in his head and the little he can see with the experience he had he took that deadly risk
I’m not even gonna “like” this video because there is nothing to like about it. It was such a sad tragedy for everyone. Rest in peace to everyone who died in the crash
Some of us just want to understand and figure out what happened. So we can learn and do better to prevent things like this. This is so sad, I do not think most of us find happiness in watching this kind of thing. I personally want to understand. Such an awful tragedy.
I couldn't agree more with you rest in peace Kobe and his daughter but everybody that died on the airplane is important they were all human and loved by someone good thought homie
12kadira I hear you man, personally I think the pilot was selfish if he didn’t mention anything to his passengers, 15 minutes is a lot of time to make a decision, if police and news choppers were grounded that day why even fly. Wish outcome would have been different.
Something happened a few seconds before that when the pilot stopped communicating. Maybe he had a heart attack and someone in the passenger seat failed to take over. There’s no black box and missing equipment it’s sad. Every 90’s baby grew up watching Kobe. Rip everyone on that flight you will be missed.
@@rochim.1192 I was on one chartered helicopter over Rio. No desire to do it again. Also took a small plane over Mount Mckinley in Alaska. Scrary. BUT-Commercial aviation is very safe. Since 9/11-which was caused by inexcusable carelessness on the part of Security-there was one turboprop that was lost over Buffalo (with no survivors) in 2009. Here in the US-planes are kept in good condition, and pilots are well-trained. Yes-the "Miracle on the Hudson" was just that. Again-"Sully" was trained in emergency situations. No loss of life there. That said: I wish we had bullet trains (or the Tesla vacuum bullet for longer trips.) It's Greener.
It’s sad but not that sad Many more Famous people have died much more worse and I’n higher numbers He’s lucky he died instant Panicked or not Instant They didn’t have any problems So could we forget about this like the Iranian Missile striek
@@shadowdeslaar this is sad! This is still new to everyone who cares,yes many famous people die,and we all will die one way or another & no matter how a person dies,it is still heartfelt by loved ones& hearts around the world that care.. I care& my heart goes out to everyone! With prayers for each breath we take,let us come together and be here for each other through all times& you may feel differently about the sadness of this& that is your personal choice, freedom of speech for me is to suggest respect to the families who are devastated and in shock,from this unexpected tragedy & now they plan funerals, picking up without their mothers,fathers, children, and for that is heartbreaking and my heart goes out to every heart! I believe in eternity,I fight back daily terminal illnesses, suffering in pain,my heart & spirit is strong and in my personal faith,I will keep praying miraculous peace that passes all understanding for all hearts & God bless all ❣🙌☝️✌❤💪☝️🙌❤❤
JEANENE Meyer Lewis I don’t mean to sound rude or Shitty”. But I don’t have Faith in God or Humanity I don’t trust anyone that hasn’t stepped foot in my house. I never believe our Government And I am always prepared for Civil war. I do wish my neighbors cared for me As I cared for them People have lost their sense of reality By modernization We text rather then talk We say hey google instead Of read books We watch games and play games Instead of being the game Our games are much more tame , inexpensive Our games are Weak and soft We cry for people who normally wouldn’t be anything if it wasn’t for their career being simple Some people could be somthing but never got the opportunity too be that somthing Bryant was lucky He knew that He also didn’t care about his situation That’s how a lot of Famous people die Kennedy thought nobody disliked him So he got shot in the head for it Elvis Overdosed But still didn’t mind his situation My point is People die Wether it’s for a reason Or not They all die Some famous people are nothing more then simple minded humans that do or did somthing Relatively unimpressive Yet are held in high account for still doing it While their are people who are smart then the famous and yet aren’t ever heard of or mentioned Never to be thought of (very few made and make it to the text books) Witch is sad Because they could change reality all together Rather then waste effort And time On a activity that could be replaced with efficiency somewhere else Like building a space craft or getting to mars Arguably more impressive and needed then any famous person that did Very Very Minor things to what Human Kind has accomplished
No kidding. I think we've all had a "close call" story after some time flying. We also set a series of "decision points" to establish a "fuck this shit" decision point to avoid getting to that IIMC point. Hell, I've landed at an airfield with birds in the pattern after returning SVFR in a hurry. Thought fuck it, we'll do some traffic pattern work. Tower clears me for left closed traffic and about 100 feet prior to traffic pattern altitude I start scraping clouds again. On the downwind I ask Tower like "are well calling this thing or what?" This MFer comes back with "yeah, we were going to call the field IFR after you landed." Like....mfer why'd you let me take off?! Can't always count on TWR and ATIS.
That part got me thinking too. Holding for 15min is way too long. He knew something was up and sounded nervous when he said "okay we'll continue holding." ???
@@willardfarr1611 + you're the 1st person's opinion that I have read so far who has said what I was thinking. Another girl who was commenting on the flight pattern said it doesn't add up. IDK Y I'm thinking something bad happened in that copter b4 the crash...???🤷
I can only pray that it was over in an instant. I can't imagine those little girls so frightened and the parents as well not knowing what to say or do.
@@RS_Alvarado4 Exactly. Some were saying Kobe was found with his arms wrapped around his daughter. Can't be true because everyone has to wear seatbelts that strap around chest. Like you, I prayed it was just over.💔
Unfortunately, they knew something was wrong. They were flying in clouds completely blind with a pilot asking for visual help. I am a pilot myself and this pilot basically was on a suicide mission flying in conditions like this. He was using the freeway as a makeshift GPS because he didn't have IFR rated instruments. So he made a special VFR flight, in IFR conditions. Its his job as a pilot to keep visual separation at all times. The part that kills me is the pilot outright LIES at one point. The METAR is 1100FT visibility and he claims he is at 1500FT VFR. The pilot was Scud Running in Fog and nobody survives scud running in a canyon in fog.
Bad weather. Sad they didn't just take a private transport from Burbank or van Nuys. These loss of lives could have been prevented. I still cant accept it...
You know I'm really thnking no one even knew, unless the pilot had a medical emergency, if it was so foggy as everyone is saying then they never saw it coming 😪😪
Andrew Spoto I think of that too. If the blade clipped the hill then descended? The fear they felt. Although they said they should’ve died on impact. These babies aren’t here anymore.
No, cause at that point there was no danger at all. They were waiting for air traffic to clear and that's it. Clearly whatever happened, happened right before the crash. It looks like something happened to the pilot.
@@haydencook682 Could simply be vertigo. He had lost sight of the ground, and pulled hard up, likely to stay clear of the terrain. Strong acceleration and no visual cues leads to a rapid drift in the sense of orientation. The pilot may think he is level when he is actually in a bank, or vice versa. When you can't tell if you are stalling, diving or spiralling, you don't know how, if or when to recover.
Seems like the pilot was definitely disoriented with his surroundings and the fog. Looks like he was trying to turn back around but lost control. This is just beyond tragic
@@marisoltorres4786 Probably faster to look it up. I believe all aircrafts have it, it's a box that's indestructible and used to record everything that's happening in the aircraft such as people talking.
@@derricksmith8978 D(err)ick,you are stupid. Let her ask questions. The dumbest oerson in the classroom is one that doesn't participate or ask questions. Grow up,dude
*FACTS* • The helicopter could fly in zero visibility conditions (foggy weather was not an issue) • The pilot had 20 years of experience • The pilot stopped answering the radio approx 50 seconds before the crash took place • The helicopter dropped 325 feet In 14 seconds, reaching 176 mph in the process *The pilot probably had a heart attack or a stroke*
They said all victims died from blunt force trauma. If it was a medical issue for the pilot, wouldn't that be listed on the coroner's report? Just curious.
N.L. Hudson i mean its easy to assume that it was blunt force trauma considering what happened. Not sure if they went as far as to check past that or of the bodies are even in the condition where they would know
The irony is Kobe took the Helicopter to avoid traffic. It was Sunday and traffic should've been much lesser. Also, they were circling for more than 15 minutes. Maybe, they should've landed and take off again.
You know they didn’t hit the fog until the mountains came about? Which was about 30 minutes into the flight. An they were circling due to other planes in the same area. Not because of anything else. So him taking that heli was not his fault. It was clear where they left from.
Traffic is still bad on Sundays in LA. It's bad all the time. Orange County to Thousand Oaks can take 2-3 hours. Helicopter is under an hour. Wish they would have drove but you can't blame them.
London Taylor Don’t beLIEve the bullshit! Here you have a professional pilot that trains pilots, news copters traffic and police copters knew and had sense to not fly in those conditions but this pilot didn’t??? The pilot would be the one to make it known. Wake up already man🤷🏾♂️
@Doctor MindBenDa and who told you that Kobes Spirit? First of all stop making things up and spreading it. Second of all do me a favor and most of you just shut up because you have no idea what you're talking about
@@johnygoodman6659 radio control literally said why. Are you not listening? He was too low for radio contact. The clouds got lower, he kept going lower to stay under them to see the road. He got stuck in a small small flight space. Boxed in. He then entered the mountains. He then ascended and attempted a 180 to get out of trouble and get back to the original path or a possible landing spot. Either lost control on that turn or lost his bearings and Dove. It's pretty simple
Fam stop with these bogus conspiracy theories, yes it was a god awful tragedy, but living in SoCal it was a foggy ass Sunday morning that day, u could hardly see cars infront of you so I can only imagine actually being in the sky how bad it was
@matthew foster I don't think it's that simple. something strikes me as odd why he would just veer to the left. Why make that move if it's low visibility and you know the terrain is mountainous
@@ThisIsDavesGarage At the same time, it doesn't seem like you can continue flying forward without seeing. Would one ever sit it down where you would hopefully finally be below the clouds/fog and deal with that scenario vs what happened? I just don't know....so, so frustrating to think of from ground level.
There was no perceived emergency. The conditions were bad, but presumably manageable. He was trying to climb to get out of the fog, but ended up getting disoriented and quickly lost control of the chopper. By the time he knew he was in an emergency situation it was too late.
Let's chill with these conspiracies. You're basically calling the pilot a murderer with assumptions since we don't have all the facts yet. What if it was some kind of malfunction? How would you feel if you're trying to mourn your father or son and people are saying your loved one purposely killed men, women, and children? Show a little decency. Hopefully we find out the truth, but ease up.
vect97 wasn’t a malfunction. he started turning to the left, and the helicopter tilted too far to its side and descended and ended up crashing into the mountain. No malfunction. It was also said the pilot was too low and increased altitude quickly, then turned around for some reason and when turning it started falling towards the ground
@@theaaronbrothers All I know is there should have been some talking at the end. Some screaming, some yelling, some "I can't see!", some panic. But nothing, just silence. Everybody should find that to be very odd.
THEY KEPT HIM IN THE AIR LONG ENOUGH TO COMPUTER HACK HIS AIR CRAFT, DISABLE THE ATC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND MANIPULATE IT FROM A REMOTE DRONE PILOT POSITION, FORCING A CRASH OF THE AIRCRAFT... THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF BEING "STILL TOO LOW" WAS A SPUR OF THE MOMENT "PRE-EMPTIVE NARRATIVE" SET TO LEAD ONE'S MIND DOWN THE PATH OF "AIR CRAFT DYSFUNCTION"... THIRD EYE ACTIVATED... HE "OBVIOUSLY" PISSED OFF THE "WRONG PEOPLE"...
T_ Loading I believe it was the transition from VFR to IFR when he climbed into the fog. It can be quite disorienting and I believe he was trying to 180 to backtrack and he may have ended up over rotating the turn and did not notice until they came out of the clouds which was too late to make a correction.
Movements are strange because that's the way it was programmed into Google Earth. I wouldn't read too much into that. And the timing of the communication may not exactly match the path on this simulation
@@Hennessypossible The heart attack theory is unlikely. The thick fog theory actually makes perfect sense. Conditions got bad and pilot may have been looking to land at the Sheriff's helipad which is less than a mile from the crash site
I have been trying to tell anyone who will listen that the last communication between the pilot and the air traffic controller was not heard by the pilot of the helicopter because he misunderstood the frequency that the prior controller told he to change to and that was 134.2 he repeated back "34.2" instead! It seems that he never was in contact with the hand-off between controllers in the final minutes of flight!
If you are referencing the "no response" from the pilot to SoCal...its because the pilots responses were not recorded by the SoCal ATC. When the final NTSB report comes out you will see there was no issues with communication
Breaks my heart when I think of the children and the blazing fire. LORD HAVE MERCY JESUS!! May GOD comfort the families who loss their loved ones. #SadDay
@@onlne1 god gives free will. the pilot knew better, it’s sad but he did. I’m so over the whole if life isn’t perfect then there must be no God. Wack thinking
Wow that ridge line popped up fast damn this video made me feel like I was on this chopper and that sudden ridgeline popping up yea brought a queasy feeling in my stomach alright
David Gilmour i think when they first started down the 101 he was trying to follow freeway started veering off path account of fog (flying into the ceiling).... i think they pulled up drastically when he bout clipped that ridge off right of the highway....... makes me wonder if it shook him so bad he couldn’t function rationally after that or if maybe the tail rotor clipped it or something and added to the problem????
Pilots routinely stop talking to ATC. Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. Fog and helicopters do not do well with each other. He may have got into the fog and tried desperately to get out, got disoriented and lost control.
It's sad that 1 good father trying to fulfill his duty to his daughter died in a tragedy... you will always be remembered KOBE. A good man, a good father and husband. Go live in the Kingdom of our Creator with your daughter and the people onboard...
@@DenisDamulira23 Wrong. I co-pilot all the time and we have influence over the pilot or we will literally take over the controls. Both helicopters and airplanes. I hate the terrain avoidance system. It's always screaming warning, warning, warning in your headset and it's actually a distraction to your flying. Often, the obstacle is miles away yet it's screaming in your headset. It's no risk at all.
I think so ; the rapid decent rate, and the fact that the chopper hit the ground at an est. 170 mph says some thing very bad happened to the pilot or the chopper. R.I.P. to all on board.
this makes me think the pilot passed out or something , to not reply then just fall that quick did he collapse on a joy stick , i dont know maybe someone who has experience in helicopters can answer that
No, stop putting misguided nonsense into the ether. Several experts have commented on what they believe happened, how about searching that out instead of making asinine claims
@@davidvaughn9 no need to be fucking rude hey at the end of the day they all lost there lives why don't we all fucking wait for the final say for starters the pilot was not at fault his company is the one that disregarded the weather
my heart aches for everyone who passed away, including the pilot, and the families. just imagine the pain their families went through when the heard the news. the last words of the people on board, the terror they must have felt. they were so young, they deserved so much more. rip to everyone
For people saying that Kobe would've been mad if the driver went to emergency landing, news flash: THE HELICOPTER DRIVER HAS THE FULL AUTHORITY IN THE WHOLE DURATION OF A FLIGHT.
@@maxv3208 Well, I guess the silver lining of a global superstar dying like this is now people will listen to their pilots and believe them if something is fishy and needs to have an emergency landing.
I'm from Argentina, I don't even like basketball so much, but I'm still disturbed by this tragedy, maybe because how big Kobe was, maybe because I have a daughter, maybe because it could have been avoided.
😥 can imagine the scream inside when it was about crashing, when something like that (helicopter) have a fault, other things will not function, making the doors unable to open. Always get a chill all over my body each time I think of it.
@@rowlandsparkle4499 There was debris scattered over 5-600', I doubt that there were any doors left intact, not to mention they died on impact. Whether a door would open or not is pretty much moot at that point.
I think you guys are assuming they knew they were in real danger with anytime to react to it. No emergency terrain detection on the helicopter, multiple eye witnesses near by said they could hear it above them but couldn't see it because the fog was so bad, if they had any idea they were going to crash and die, it had to have been very very last second. Hitting the ground at that speed everybody guaranteed died on impact. Prob very little time to even process fear. I'm sure if something mechanical went wrong, he would have auto roated that thing back to the ground. Just seems like a fatal pilot error discombobulation
Pablo Camacho underrated comment man why hasn’t anyone one in the news brought that up same thing I was thinking , I’m a truck driver and you can drive anywhere in LA without the normal gridlocked traffic at that time
Pablo Camacho I was thinking the same thing..it was a 40 minute helicopter flight from orange county to calabasas..maybe an hour plus in a car..I guess it was destiny for them to go out like that..sad, but we'll never know...rip everybody on that flight..
Good and valid point. Probably Kobe didn’t know much about aviation weather, what a METAR is, a TAF... he probably thought the pilot would do his homework.
Everybody keep saying the pilots having a heart attack or had a stroke or something medically happened to him what you people don't understand this was meant to happen the pilot knew this was happening you could tell he was nervous when he was speaking he didn't respond back to the controls at the operator for 50 seconds he was a very experienced pilot one person who's had training from him said there's nothing that he cannot do when it comes to Flying a helicopter so what you guys don't understand he knew he was going to kill Kobe and his daughter along with his self this is what happens when you offer blood sacrifice to Satan open your guys's eyes don't be blind and don't be deaf listen here see and understand
I thought the same thing. It's like he was flying blindly in that fog. Everybody on board must of been nervous from the start. I'm now thinking they didn't realise they was going to die so suddenly
seems experienced pilots just dont do that. they are trained to fly not to cancel the flights. this only regular(normal) people would do. but that's the reason they never fly.
@Mook Wolf flying blind doesn't explain the dropping 300 feet in 14 second and reaching up to 170mph. In that weather no pilot would intentionally fly the irradically. Maybe engine failure and because of fog it was too difficult to properly do an auto rotation landing is my guess
4:45 the pilot sounds nervous and distressed with a nervousness in his voice. whoa...conditions were getting bad or he must have had a bad feeling about this...
The FAA’s helicopter flying handbook states that losing all visual references during a flight “can cause sensory overload” for a pilot, who can then lose the ability to think rationally. This is most likely what happened. My family friend is a pilot and said that he once flew into fog and couldn’t tell that his plane was on a 40 degree angle ... Up was down, down was up, fast seemed slow, etc. it was the worst experience of his life. This is probably what happened.
@@angelpaige685 he is responsible because he made them take the 101 instead of the 118. The reason was so he could show others his academy from the air
We don't know the pilot, - please be respectful. I was just told the pilot was a VERY experienced one, who had flown this route many many times in all kind of weather. There is a Police helicopter pad little under a mile from the crash, - maybe he knew this and could therefore answer the sudden last turn. So sad.
Maybe he had a seizure or something because he stops talking and whenever they would ask him stuff prior he would answer quickly then all of a sudden he stops answering and guns it or heart attack or he just decided to end this .. it’s not normal
Idk but seems like some kind of malfunction as they lost contact..seems kinda like he tried to regain control and it just nose dived. He didn’t sound like someone trying to die.
Debra Salinas - Those videos from the ground were NOT in the area that it was foggy... just low clouds. And, the area they crashed in had hills and mountains at a higher elevation and had fog coming in from the ocean through the pass that highway 101 goes through
He probably he couldn’t see, turned around and dropped altitude to get under then fog but seems like he ignored or couldn’t hear the air control person. By then it was to late
yeah maybe the pilot disoriented with the fogs and had an attack that triggered their horrible situation and this happened very quickly maybe during that transition from van nuys to socal
You actually only are hearing one side of the convo when hes taking to Socal because the Helicopter's side wasn't being recorded. A expert pointed this out in another video.
Something in my gut tells me this was no accident there's faul play here. That helicopter flew 178/180miles into a bush/ into the side of a mountain .that pilot had 13yrs experience. .they were all assassinated. Lord God give us strength. .this energy is freaky all over the world too ever since this happened same shit happened wit nipsey same energy they killing OUR greats. Please let me be wrong. Lord bless us all.RIP
Dee .F.D You’re an Idiot. You also can’t spell. Just because the pilot had 13 years experience, doesn’t mean anything. I would tell you to watch the video and listen to the audio, but you’re too stupid to understand it.
To those of you asking if the pilot had a medical emergency, there's no reason to come to that conclusion. This was a textbook case of spatial disorientation. The pilot knew that he couldn't proceed any further and was trying to climb up to a safe altitude to avoid the terrain and head back the way he came. The problem is it's very easy to drift when hovering in fog, and when you climb in those conditions you can easily lose control and end up inverting the craft with too little altitude to recover. It can happen to the best of them, and happen fast. Kind of a perfect storm scenario. The delay at Burbank allowed the conditions in Calabasas to deteriorate before they could get through. The terrain, the fog, the frustration, the kids ... one slight lapse of judgment and it's over.
This is the most likely scenario that has happened many times before. Just last year a pilot crashed into a tower in New York with heavy fog and low visibility. If only the helicopter had a CVR and FDR, would have better data than what the flight tracker shows.
It wasn't Kobe's fault, they interviewed another pilot who he use to fly with Kobe all the time and asked if Kobe had ever pressured him about flying in unsafe weather and he said no Kobe was all about safety. And if the pilot would of said its not safe to fly Kobe being the family man he is he would not of put all their lives at risk like that!
The owner or lessee (lease) in this case always has the last say on GO or No Go. That guy was Kobe Bryant. Bryant trusted the pilot and the other 7 passengers trusted Bryant.
I think he did but you know my boy kobe wanted everything on that same spot. He was a guy that wanted everything good and well done. Maybe the pilot follow kobe orders instead of the airport.
Wow now I feel that something malfunctioned in mid air because the pilot was responding very consciously and then the plane just veered and all of a sudden it was flying too low to get further following instructions..... man this breaks my heart...
It was foggy on that day. Pilot had planned to use the highway as a visual reference but the visibility must have been horrible if he had to fly so close to the ground. It's quite likely that the pilot had tried to u-turn out of the area. Unfortunately, due to the poor visibility, he ended up diving into the side of the hill. ppl think it's a textbook example of CFIT (controlled flight into terrain), a combination of bad weather plus human error.
Nothing malfunctioned. Many pilts die by going into the clouds. Your helicopter can go sideways/upside down in literally 5 seconds if youre not paying attention to instruments or making great effort to remain level without looking at instruments.
@@melvinthedeathless.melvint6727 He wasn't close to the ground, he climbed into the clouds in the final moments of the crash, then came plummeting down at extremely high speeds. Obvious indication that he lost control.
Your question is the same question from the people who knew about operating helicopter. VFR vs IFR; he chose VFR. I think he should choose IFR mode to fly in that condition right?
I think he got disoriented once he climbed into the clouds to avoid terrain. I feel that explains the sudden and rapid drop in altitude at the end. It's very difficult to go from VFR to IFR at low altitude in mountainous terrain. It can get the best of us! So it seems it did...
Ironically, the NTSB has recommended (which is all they can do) that black boxes be mandatory in helicopters. It's the FAA who is responsible for the regulations, and they haven't followed through on the NTSB suggestions.
Something went wrong.. when he tried to climb high above the weather... after a minute it was like his mind could tell left from right. He freaked out.
So your gonna fucking try to talk while dropping like a lead ball moron? Or are you gonnna try every trick of the trade to regain control? Here im free falling let me see what air traffic control can do for me . Grow up nut job conspiracy theorist.
Actually the pilot was still talking to the air traffic controller, however the pilots voice was not recorded when he switched over to SoCal a.t.c. This is explained in another video, go to 7:00 on the following... ruclips.net/video/t7dHUCnxQD0/видео.html
Is it me or did the pilot say 34.2 instead of 134.2? He was on the wrong channel and in vfr conditions he needed guidance. Once he couldn’t establish the 134.2 which was the correct channel, he was at 34.2 because you can here him say that and not the 134.2. The fog got him disoriented.
Other LA based Helo Pilots are saying he hit a wall of fog and either tried to go up to clear it or turn around. But in both instances he looses his sense of level and spatial surrounding because of the fog and the Helo went hard left down and was not enough time to recover. But heart attack or health episode was my next theory too! Also he would have seen the fog and disobeyed company policy and the FAA by flying into the fog. So he is sadly negligent on that count. Also why was he flying do fast into inclement weather with known hills in his flight plan.
I’ve been thinking something might have happened to the pilot too but if that happened I think the crash would have landed on a house or a street or store but it crashed out where nobody was so I think the pilot was aware of that and tried to steer them away from a place that people were likely at
Other reports are conflicting this. It has been said that he was going to climb for flight following. Why has that audio not been available when all the rest has? I want the black box data.
My guess is this pilot flew into a cloud or heavy fog which caused 0 visibility and instead of switching to IFR (Instrument flight rules) he tried to fly out of the fog without visual references. He banked hard to the left without knowing his position relative to the ground which caused the helicopter to pick up speed. When he finally excited the fog he was to low and going to fast and was unable to avoid crashing into the ground.
It was spatial disorientation. Pure and simple. Another factor: I just read LA Times article "Helicopter diverted from usual route." The transition from following Hwy 118 west to Camarillo, to flying southwest to intersect and follow (the usual) 101 west, proved deadly...I think pilot wanted to usual his usual 101 route to destination so much so that he flew to the path with the worst weather. He could've just followed the 118 west ALL the way to Camarillo since he was VFR when flying up there at 1500' MSL (per radio call before he requested turn to SW to get to 101); it was more inland, further from coast and fog. So sad... so unforgiving... sigh...Here's the LA Times piece: www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation
Those people contributed to his death. I would feel dizzy going around like that.. special respect to pilots I just started realizing you guys do the most dangerous jobs
@@alainconnelly8870 You're an idiot. You think a holding pattern well before going into the clouds is what disoriented the fkn pilot. Dude, stick to shit you know anything about. This definitely isn't it.
RIP to Kobe, his daughter and all the families. May God have mercy upon you all. God bless all the families that are left to cope. Blessings upon us all. Amen!🙏😭🙏💜💛💜💛
I get sad whenever I hear or see this story ! It’s very depressing 😭😭😢 and I wish I can go back in time to stop that flight (even if I had only 30 minutes I will have made a change ) but it’s too late now I guess . RIP GIGI . RIP KOBE . RIP TO ALL THE FAMILIES ON THAT FLIGHT!! I pray you all rest in HEAVEN with THE LORD . I’m heartbroken 💔💔💔
Even if you did that Kobe and the others will look at u like u crazy and will call security and they would've still took flight.If me and you would try to convince that something bad would happen we prolly don't have a chance of saving them from getting on the chooper
So sad they’d all still be alive today if it was just a clear sky day instead of foggy. It’s easy to forget how quick death can occur while living our lives
FitLife 120 no, not necessarily. Statistics prove its more likely you’ll die on the ground in a car than any mode of air travel...regardless of weather.
FitLife 120 the point is if there was reason NOT to fly he wouldn’t have flight clearance from the numerous ATCs (air traffic control centers) during the SCHEDULED flight path...they didn’t just randomly decide to fly to the camp that day...Kobe’s pilot likely had an entire month or beyond tentative flight schedules submitted. Helicopters aren’t cars, you don’t just hop into one and fly around...clearance is required for all take offs and landings AT ALL TIMES...violating these regs would cause a pilot a citation and likely suspension of their FAA pilot’s license...in other words...pilots aren’t “drivers”...pilots don’t ‘make the call’ to fly or not, ATC does. Google FAA rules and regs sometimes. Respectfully, Nurse Dee, USAF Veteran pilot and current civilian licensed pilot. :)
The most important information here is why did he not respond, what happened the last 30 seconds, it's like he had a stroke or something, now that would make sense to all this, slumped over and accelerated, that's the only thing I can think of the facts given...
Jerome Garcia exactly I originally thought he maintained radio communication but now it’s obvious something either went wrong with the helicopter or the pilot.
It is a possibility that foul play is the culprit. I have heard that Kobe had made a disparaging comment about Donald Trump. [ www.snopes.com/fact-check/kobe-bryant-trump-quote/ ] ...... So, is this what may have happened to the Hellicopter? VIDEO: ruclips.net/video/-9WcxqQbGn0/видео.html I have seen a VIDEO of 2 helicopters flying over the crash site. I don't know how long after the crash happened that these 2 helicopters were over the crash site..... probably not too long after it happened, though. The fog didn't look so bad then...just saying.
I’ve never been in a helicopter before but the circling of the same area would’ve probably raised my suspicions as a passenger. Kobe Bryant had been on countless flights, I wonder did he or anyone else start to question the situation to themselves or aloud. RIP to all souls lost on board.
Helicopters fall out the sky a lot. I wouldn't fuck with them. But this wasn't intentional. This was a major fuck up. NTSB said this helicopter did not have the safety devices needed to fly around that terrain in foggy conditions. Altitude changes quickly around hills. The gage could be reading 1500 ft but if the terrain rises it will be to late to notice in the fog and without the proper devices.
Flying 1400 in heavy urban area puts a varity of things in your path. Birds, Wires, Towers, Drones just to name a few. To be honest this was suicide from the start. Million dollar aircraft has more than enough instruments to guide a pilot.
Yet no helicopter terrain awareness and warning system. Thanks, FAA!! The NTSB has been pushing for HTAWS and black boxes on helios for over a decade now. The FAA is really the tombstone agency. They let the bodies pile up before they do anything.
@@gt362gamer They are not required by the FAA to have them even after decades of fatal crashes. Most rescue and emergency helicopters use them. This situation is so terribly sad. I don't know if an HTAWS would have helped. The pilot may have been transitioning from VFR(visual) to IMC (instrument) and lost control. It happens way too often. Unfortunately, public and proactive safety measures are NOT the top priority of the FAA.
Safety should've come first with how bad the fog was. This accident didn't have to happen. Very tragic.
They all took the risk. Very sad 💔 I hope this will change the way things are done, as one of the interviews pilots said.
@Teddy Li that is so true. I'm flight attendant and I was asking our pilots what they thought
1st thing the weather was not good
2nd (not saying Kobe was like this) but celebrities dont care and want to be somewhere at this time no questions asked.
3rd its weird how the pilot veered off
The pilot had special training to fly in those weather conditions.
Yeah but looking at how far they flew It's possible that the fog wasn't that thick where they was flying to at the time of takeoff.
@Kewana Nedd I think so too. He was finally cleared to take off, but according to one experienced pilot he may have become disoriented. No amount of money would be enough to get in a helicopter with weather like that.
The most painful thing is that nothing will bring them back. And that's what so unbearable about the untimely death of these people.
pikenova48 these people? More like we’re all standing in line when that day comes
@@PFlower15
It's true. We all know it's the law and that no one lives forever. But this a tragedy that perhaps could have been avoided, if only someone had the foresight to meticulously check the weather, check to see why the police helicopters were not flying that day. And a wise pilot might have said; hey, let's turn back because things don't look too good?
pikenova48 I think that’s where the problem intensified.. it was too late to go back and with having that route mapped in his head and the little he can see with the experience he had he took that deadly risk
pikenova48 Well. They can come back from reincarnation, but I still understand where you're coming from.
Pauline hopefully we all do 🙏
I’m not even gonna “like” this video because there is nothing to like about it. It was such a sad tragedy for everyone. Rest in peace to everyone who died in the crash
It's ok. I liked it just for you.
Some of us just want to understand and figure out what happened. So we can learn and do better to prevent things like this. This is so sad, I do not think most of us find happiness in watching this kind of thing. I personally want to understand. Such an awful tragedy.
I'll like it
U think likes are important? Aren't u an adult already?
And may the families of the 9 humans who passed on; eventually find peace in their hearts.
R.I.P to everyone on the helicopter.
Thanks
yep
I couldn't agree more with you rest in peace Kobe and his daughter but everybody that died on the airplane is important they were all human and loved by someone good thought homie
Ment to say helicopter
Even the survivors died!
Its extremely horrifying to view the "path" of one's death.
Seriously unsettling
Calm down bitch
RIP KOBE
And yet here we are.
Just ask Google or Apple. They'll track ya every step of the way. All of our last steps are followed. Our calories, too!
Have you ever heard of jessus is journey who die for your sins.?
It’s hard to believe that for minutes 15 no one said forget this shit, land this chopper.
The whole time I'm just like why can't they land the fuckin' chopper.
Man...It doesn’t make sense...All of those adults on board and nobody was on top of safety...Not one of them spoke up...
12kadira I hear you man, personally I think the pilot was selfish if he didn’t mention anything to his passengers, 15 minutes is a lot of time to make a decision, if police and news choppers were grounded that day why even fly. Wish outcome would have been different.
Kvhg poor decision making on the pilots end sometimes they gotta bite the bullet and say we’re done, safety comes first
I feel at least one person was worried about the fifteen minute delay but didn’t speak up. I feel so sad and hurt for all.
My heart was pounding this whole because I didn’t want crash part.
Mine too and I've only flown on a plane once and did not like the feeling at all.
Something happened a few seconds before that when the pilot stopped communicating. Maybe he had a heart attack and someone in the passenger seat failed to take over. There’s no black box and missing equipment it’s sad. Every 90’s baby grew up watching Kobe. Rip everyone on that flight you will be missed.
@@Astelch A chopper doesn't usually use a copilot-LOL. That's part of the problem here.
@@rochim.1192 I was on one chartered helicopter over Rio. No desire to do it again. Also took a small plane over Mount Mckinley in Alaska. Scrary. BUT-Commercial aviation is very safe. Since 9/11-which was caused by inexcusable carelessness on the part of Security-there was one turboprop that was lost over Buffalo (with no survivors) in 2009. Here in the US-planes are kept in good condition, and pilots are well-trained. Yes-the "Miracle on the Hudson" was just that. Again-"Sully" was trained in emergency situations. No loss of life there.
That said: I wish we had bullet trains (or the Tesla vacuum bullet for longer trips.) It's Greener.
Same here
R.I.P. Kobe Bryant, Gianna and all on board that fateful flight 😭
Sinha Singhaya pilots fault
It’s sad but not that sad
Many more Famous people have died much more worse and I’n higher numbers
He’s lucky he died instant
Panicked or not
Instant
They didn’t have any problems
So could we forget about this like the Iranian Missile striek
@@shadowdeslaar this is sad! This is still new to everyone who cares,yes many famous people die,and we all will die one way or another & no matter how a person dies,it is still heartfelt by loved ones& hearts around the world that care.. I care& my heart goes out to everyone! With prayers for each breath we take,let us come together and be here for each other through all times& you may feel differently about the sadness of this& that is your personal choice, freedom of speech for me is to suggest respect to the families who are devastated and in shock,from this unexpected tragedy & now they plan funerals, picking up without their mothers,fathers, children, and for that is heartbreaking and my heart goes out to every heart! I believe in eternity,I fight back daily terminal illnesses, suffering in pain,my heart & spirit is strong and in my personal faith,I will keep praying miraculous peace that passes all understanding for all hearts & God bless all ❣🙌☝️✌❤💪☝️🙌❤❤
JEANENE Meyer Lewis I don’t mean to sound rude or Shitty”.
But I don’t have Faith in God or Humanity
I don’t trust anyone that hasn’t stepped foot in my house.
I never believe our Government
And I am always prepared for Civil war.
I do wish my neighbors cared for me
As I cared for them
People have lost their sense of reality
By modernization
We text rather then talk
We say hey google instead
Of read books
We watch games and play games
Instead of being the game
Our games are much more tame , inexpensive
Our games are
Weak and soft
We cry for people who normally wouldn’t be anything if it wasn’t for their career being simple
Some people could be somthing but never got the opportunity too be that somthing
Bryant was lucky
He knew that
He also didn’t care about his situation
That’s how a lot of Famous people die
Kennedy thought nobody disliked him
So he got shot in the head for it
Elvis Overdosed
But still didn’t mind his situation
My point is
People die
Wether it’s for a reason
Or not
They all die
Some famous people are nothing more then simple minded humans that do or did somthing Relatively unimpressive
Yet are held in high account for still doing it
While their are people who are smart then the famous and yet aren’t ever heard of or mentioned
Never to be thought of (very few made and make it to the text books)
Witch is sad
Because they could change reality all together
Rather then waste effort
And time
On a activity that could be replaced with efficiency somewhere else
Like building a space craft or getting to mars
Arguably more impressive and needed then any famous person that did Very Very Minor things to what Human Kind has accomplished
@@shadowdeslaar ok Karen
It was foggy. Kobe wanted to avoid car traffic .I rather spend two hours on a busy freeway than flying in dangerous conditions
And who cares abt u anyway
@@ijh001 no who cares about you ?
@@ijh001 I got 55 likes peasent
@@LordHyperi0n back to ur trash can， no one is talking to u
@@ijh001 I'm taking u with me
Learn when is the exact time to say “NO” PREVENTABLE ACCIDENT, he should have said NO.
No kidding. I think we've all had a "close call" story after some time flying. We also set a series of "decision points" to establish a "fuck this shit" decision point to avoid getting to that IIMC point. Hell, I've landed at an airfield with birds in the pattern after returning SVFR in a hurry. Thought fuck it, we'll do some traffic pattern work. Tower clears me for left closed traffic and about 100 feet prior to traffic pattern altitude I start scraping clouds again. On the downwind I ask Tower like "are well calling this thing or what?" This MFer comes back with "yeah, we were going to call the field IFR after you landed." Like....mfer why'd you let me take off?! Can't always count on TWR and ATIS.
Jeniffer Eliza he paid with not only his life but others
s ofg thats the issue. Maybe other pilots have done it and got away with it. Nothing is a problem till it’s a problem.
Ashley Johnson!!!! That was a preventable accident... there is nothing wrong with saying hell no let’s wait.
Rachel Gooden!!!! Nothing is a problem until becomes a problem exactly, is board to say NO Sometimes I guess.
The pilot was clearly frustrated when he said, "okay, we'll continue holding". He knew the weather was bad.
That part got me thinking too. Holding for 15min is way too long. He knew something was up and sounded nervous when he said "okay we'll continue holding." ???
Pitts S2C I heard that too... worried in his voice
Time stamp?
Irish Annie the video is like 6 minutes long and you can’t find that?
immediately landed have should He
It would be interesting to see this simulation using the actual fog pattern from that day.
That's what I said, but it's just not adding up
Very interesting ....that's like closing your eyes while driving
Here’s a visual version created with actual fog.
ruclips.net/video/BCLNJLjitSs/видео.html
Its all BS Fog was not the Problem
@@willardfarr1611 + you're the 1st person's opinion that I have read so far who has said what I was thinking. Another girl who was commenting on the flight pattern said it doesn't add up.
IDK Y I'm thinking something bad happened in that copter b4 the crash...???🤷
Can't help but wonder if they knew they were in serious trouble or if it was all over in an instant. Haunting.
I can only pray that it was over in an instant. I can't imagine those little girls so frightened and the parents as well not knowing what to say or do.
@@RS_Alvarado4 You hold them and tell them you love them. That's all you can do in a tragic moment like that. Very sad.
@@RS_Alvarado4 Exactly. Some were saying Kobe was found with his arms wrapped around his daughter. Can't be true because everyone has to wear seatbelts that strap around chest. Like you, I prayed it was just over.💔
Unfortunately, they knew something was wrong. They were flying in clouds completely blind with a pilot asking for visual help. I am a pilot myself and this pilot basically was on a suicide mission flying in conditions like this. He was using the freeway as a makeshift GPS because he didn't have IFR rated instruments. So he made a special VFR flight, in IFR conditions. Its his job as a pilot to keep visual separation at all times. The part that kills me is the pilot outright LIES at one point. The METAR is 1100FT visibility and he claims he is at 1500FT VFR. The pilot was Scud Running in Fog and nobody survives scud running in a canyon in fog.
@@mariaalexander427 Most Choppers like this have lap belts only.
Bad weather. Sad they didn't just take a private transport from Burbank or van Nuys. These loss of lives could have been prevented. I still cant accept it...
Shut up
I feel so bad thinking about the kids and what terror they felt.
You know I'm really thnking no one even knew, unless the pilot had a medical emergency, if it was so foggy as everyone is saying then they never saw it coming 😪😪
Andrew Spoto I think of that too. If the blade clipped the hill then descended? The fear they felt. Although they said they should’ve died on impact. These babies aren’t here anymore.
They didn’t see it coming so they wouldn’t have felt fear
True
same!
They circled for 15 minutes next to a golf course. Was that a missed chance to set the helicopter down safely?
No, cause at that point there was no danger at all. They were waiting for air traffic to clear and that's it. Clearly whatever happened, happened right before the crash. It looks like something happened to the pilot.
hatuxka the circled around to let another air craft pass by
@@haydencook682 Could simply be vertigo. He had lost sight of the ground, and pulled hard up, likely to stay clear of the terrain. Strong acceleration and no visual cues leads to a rapid drift in the sense of orientation. The pilot may think he is level when he is actually in a bank, or vice versa. When you can't tell if you are stalling, diving or spiralling, you don't know how, if or when to recover.
@The Universe Galaxy yes there are instruments for altitude, orientation, and pitch lol. Not sure what happened
@@haydencook682 yea what happen is called spatial disorientation.
Good video. However, you missed the crash site completely. At 6:29, the crash site is right above the "s" of "Crash" .
bowlchamps37 you’re right
You are right
Did the pilot have a heart attack...what do yall think?
@Mook Wolf we don't know that at all. He veered off the main road.
@Mook Wolf cloud covered and turbulence so that helicopter turned left and crashed on onto the site he lost connection between in that last audio 6:20
Seems like the pilot was definitely disoriented with his surroundings and the fog. Looks like he was trying to turn back around but lost control. This is just beyond tragic
I hope they find out the exact cause, and also that this is a reason to add black boxes to helicopters aswell.
Can you explain what a black box is ??
@@marisoltorres4786 Probably faster to look it up. I believe all aircrafts have it, it's a box that's indestructible and used to record everything that's happening in the aircraft such as people talking.
You sound stupid
@@marisoltorres4786 the black box is really orange.
@@derricksmith8978 D(err)ick,you are stupid. Let her ask questions. The dumbest oerson in the classroom is one that doesn't participate or ask questions. Grow up,dude
I still can’t believe it. R.I.P
ikr
What can't you believe!!? Helicopters crash all the time!
@Bryce Czirr you're a troll on the internet.
You mean rest in pieces.
@Bryce Czirr you read how many pages of the Bible? Um. Zero.
*FACTS*
• The helicopter could fly in zero visibility conditions (foggy weather was not an issue)
• The pilot had 20 years of experience
• The pilot stopped answering the radio approx 50 seconds before the crash took place
• The helicopter dropped 325 feet In 14 seconds, reaching 176 mph in the process
*The pilot probably had a heart attack or a stroke*
I never considered that!!! That certainly is a possibility!!
Yeah the illuminati shut the pilot
@@beachcomber7200 Maybe there was more than 1 issue. You never know. 🤷🏾♀️
They said all victims died from blunt force trauma. If it was a medical issue for the pilot, wouldn't that be listed on the coroner's report? Just curious.
N.L. Hudson i mean its easy to assume that it was blunt force trauma considering what happened. Not sure if they went as far as to check past that or of the bodies are even in the condition where they would know
This definitely gave me a better understanding still unbelievable
The irony is Kobe took the Helicopter to avoid traffic. It was Sunday and traffic should've been much lesser. Also, they were circling for more than 15 minutes. Maybe, they should've landed and take off again.
RIP Kobe Bryant Mamba
You know they didn’t hit the fog until the mountains came about? Which was about 30 minutes into the flight. An they were circling due to other planes in the same area. Not because of anything else. So him taking that heli was not his fault. It was clear where they left from.
He had to drive to JWA as well.
Traffic is still bad on Sundays in LA. It's bad all the time. Orange County to Thousand Oaks can take 2-3 hours. Helicopter is under an hour. Wish they would have drove but you can't blame them.
Pilot fucked up. Killed himself, others and a legend.
RIP MY CHILDHOOD HERO,EVENTHOUGH WE WERE THE SAME AGE,LOVE FROM SOUTH AFRICA
They must of been shook being in all that fog without see shit. They probably detected that the pilot was having some difficulty
London Taylor Don’t beLIEve the bullshit! Here you have a professional pilot that trains pilots, news copters traffic and police copters knew and had sense to not fly in those conditions but this pilot didn’t??? The pilot would be the one to make it known. Wake up already man🤷🏾♂️
I wonder why the pilot didn't respond to air traffic control? Fog don't make your ur radio mess up
@@briannapiersr.3026 BUDDY u have no idea wtf you're talking about
@Doctor MindBenDa and who told you that Kobes Spirit? First of all stop making things up and spreading it. Second of all do me a favor and most of you just shut up because you have no idea what you're talking about
@@johnygoodman6659 radio control literally said why. Are you not listening? He was too low for radio contact. The clouds got lower, he kept going lower to stay under them to see the road. He got stuck in a small small flight space. Boxed in. He then entered the mountains. He then ascended and attempted a 180 to get out of trouble and get back to the original path or a possible landing spot. Either lost control on that turn or lost his bearings and Dove. It's pretty simple
this breaks my heart...RIP to all on board on that helicopter crash..
That holding pattern of going in circles had to make him disorientated......made me dizzy just watching it.
@Cowardly omgosh! RIGHT THO!
It had me dizzy too. I believe the pressure dropped when they was taxied in the air for 15 minutes.
Wasn’t that like 20 minutes before the actual crash?
@@beneyboo3800 yeah... something like that...
yes, definitely a case of spacial disorientation.
I feel like throwing up after watching this....its so sad it makes me sick to my stomach
You probably have motion sickness
@K Foytik yeah reminds me of when aaliyah overloaded her plane
Same here
greed got him killed
@@18stmaniac63 sold his soul to be the face of the NBA . He knew the time was coming
Anytime I've driven a car in heavy fog, I always pull over and wait for clearing. Fog is too chilling & dangerous for me. 😢RIPP😢
Randy So Cal Well, you see, aircraft have instruments to help them fly without seeing anything, but the pilot didn’t have them on.
Randy So Cal Oh good, I heard the helicopter was trying to auto-rotate, which it didn’t have enough space to do it.
Try To Fly Gaming Read somewhere that this particular helicopter, while capable of being flown by with instrument control, was not equipped to do so.
Yeah I'm doing 5-10 mph in dense fog
If only the first tower had landed the chopper out of that holding pattern.....
John Smith I’ve been saying this from the beginning why didn’t they just landed if visibility was that bad
A tower has no control of an aircraft. How long have you been a pilot?
K Cook I’m speaking on the pilot himself at what point does safety become the priority and landing your best option...
Pilot's decision not ATC.
Bklyn Barks, the pilot continued on until it was too late to do that.
Why did he go silent all the sudden and not answer back.
Exactly.. This was clearly a set up the government shut down all the electronics on the helicopter n that explains why he lost control at the end
@@joestuehmer7967 who exactly???by who..
Can be possible that?! Helicopter its remote!?
Illuminati did it...
Law enforcement (government) grounds all helicopters in the fog. They flew anyway because it was privately owned.
This was a setup how do u jus fall 350 feet outta nowhere and go silent
It could have been anything really. A heart attack maybe, even a helicopter malfunction as rare as it seems or could have been disoriented.
This has to really be looked into..something is really dark and odd about this situation.
Fam stop with these bogus conspiracy theories, yes it was a god awful tragedy, but living in SoCal it was a foggy ass Sunday morning that day, u could hardly see cars infront of you so I can only imagine actually being in the sky how bad it was
Steve Sinner if donald trump killed every single person that criticized him then there would be a whole lot less people. Use your head bud.
Hillary got him beat
@matthew foster I don't think it's that simple. something strikes me as odd why he would just veer to the left. Why make that move if it's low visibility and you know the terrain is mountainous
I don’t understand why there wasn’t a emergency landing something must have happened to that pilot
Fog. Can't land on something you can't see.
@@ThisIsDavesGarage At the same time, it doesn't seem like you can continue flying forward without seeing. Would one ever sit it down where you would hopefully finally be below the clouds/fog and deal with that scenario vs what happened? I just don't know....so, so frustrating to think of from ground level.
There was no perceived emergency. The conditions were bad, but presumably manageable. He was trying to climb to get out of the fog, but ended up getting disoriented and quickly lost control of the chopper. By the time he knew he was in an emergency situation it was too late.
I feel like the pilot panicked and possibly experienced a heart attack
Pilot should've flew below the fog instead of above, maybe he could've landed in the street or a parking lot or something
At 4:51 you can hear the uncertainty in his voice. Almost like he was trying to keep calm and get through the fog but knew he was in trouble.
Let's chill with these conspiracies. You're basically calling the pilot a murderer with assumptions since we don't have all the facts yet. What if it was some kind of malfunction? How would you feel if you're trying to mourn your father or son and people are saying your loved one purposely killed men, women, and children? Show a little decency. Hopefully we find out the truth, but ease up.
I sincerely feel malfunction at last last seconds
vect97 wasn’t a malfunction. he started turning to the left, and the helicopter tilted too far to its side and descended and ended up crashing into the mountain. No malfunction.
It was also said the pilot was too low and increased altitude quickly, then turned around for some reason and when turning it started falling towards the ground
Imran. what’s your source that makes u so confident in saying that it wasn’t a malfunction?
@@theaaronbrothers All I know is there should have been some talking at the end. Some screaming, some yelling, some "I can't see!", some panic. But nothing, just silence. Everybody should find that to be very odd.
@@donjuan914 thats a bad assumption and this interview proves it. ruclips.net/video/t7dHUCnxQD0/видео.html
Its some so strange about this accident doesn't seem right at all
agree
I know thats why they still investigating. I Feel The pilot was going through Anxiety and He fainted
THEY KEPT HIM IN THE AIR LONG ENOUGH TO COMPUTER HACK HIS AIR CRAFT, DISABLE THE ATC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND MANIPULATE IT FROM A REMOTE DRONE PILOT POSITION, FORCING A CRASH OF THE AIRCRAFT...
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF BEING "STILL TOO LOW" WAS A SPUR OF THE MOMENT "PRE-EMPTIVE NARRATIVE" SET TO LEAD ONE'S MIND DOWN THE PATH OF "AIR CRAFT DYSFUNCTION"...
THIRD EYE ACTIVATED...
HE "OBVIOUSLY" PISSED OFF THE "WRONG PEOPLE"...
The guy sounded middle eastern you don't think he was a kamikaze pilot do you?
@@jahdagod5563 Illuminati sacrifice for LeBron James
Just gets werid, everything is taking so long and all the movments are strange.
@@Hennessypossible i was thinking the same exact thing
T_ Loading I believe it was the transition from VFR to IFR when he climbed into the fog. It can be quite disorienting and I believe he was trying to 180 to backtrack and he may have ended up over rotating the turn and did not notice until they came out of the clouds which was too late to make a correction.
Movements are strange because that's the way it was programmed into Google Earth. I wouldn't read too much into that. And the timing of the communication may not exactly match the path on this simulation
@@Hennessypossible The heart attack theory is unlikely. The thick fog theory actually makes perfect sense. Conditions got bad and pilot may have been looking to land at the Sheriff's helipad which is less than a mile from the crash site
I BELIEVE SOMEONE GAVE HIM SOMETHING BEFORE THEY GOT ON THAT HELICOPTER.
I have been trying to tell anyone who will listen that the last communication between the pilot and the air traffic controller was not heard by the pilot of the helicopter because he misunderstood the frequency that the prior controller told he to change to and that was 134.2 he repeated back "34.2" instead! It seems that he never was in contact with the hand-off between controllers in the final minutes of flight!
Sounded like she said 134.2 FOR 34.2.
Frequency coms start "1". Its very common to leave off that number "1. So as a result 134.2 becomes 34.2
very good ears! this could be the reason . What a GIANT mistake to make, that lady should resign lol
Our family had a friend that was an air traffic controller,it is a very stressful job, as you can see.
If you are referencing the "no response" from the pilot to SoCal...its because the pilots responses were not recorded by the SoCal ATC. When the final NTSB report comes out you will see there was no issues with communication
Breaks my heart when I think of the children and the blazing fire. LORD HAVE MERCY JESUS!!
May GOD comfort the families who loss their loved ones. #SadDay
If god did this, I don’t think we should be worshipping such a being
onlne1 Who said God did this? You?
@@onlne1 god gives free will. the pilot knew better, it’s sad but he did. I’m so over the whole if life isn’t perfect then there must be no God. Wack thinking
Wow that ridge line popped up fast damn this video made me feel like I was on this chopper and that sudden ridgeline popping up yea brought a queasy feeling in my stomach alright
David Gilmour i think when they first started down the 101 he was trying to follow freeway started veering off path account of fog (flying into the ceiling).... i think they pulled up drastically when he bout clipped that ridge off right of the highway....... makes me wonder if it shook him so bad he couldn’t function rationally after that or if maybe the tail rotor clipped it or something and added to the problem????
Any idea why communications from the pilot ceased after being transferred?
@@chriscrux4556 this is one of those mystery deaths like jimmy Hoffa nobody will ever know why it happened might be an accident might be foul play
@Despiser Despised says the illegitimate delinquency
@Despiser Despised fuck off
Something happened to the pilot, IMO. He stopped talking to ATC and then moments later, copter veers off and crashes.
Hell yea
He probably went panic mode
It's almost like he lost consciousness...I don't know if that's possible at such a low altitude though.
It seems he did not follow instructions. I do not know why, but that is what I am understanding. If he had followed it no one would have died.
Pilots routinely stop talking to ATC.
Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. Fog and helicopters do not do well with each other. He may have got into the fog and tried desperately to get out, got disoriented and lost control.
It's sad that 1 good father trying to fulfill his duty to his daughter died in a tragedy... you will always be remembered KOBE. A good man, a good father and husband. Go live in the Kingdom of our Creator with your daughter and the people onboard...
Romel Peralta I’m a Kobe fan but more than one good father died unfortunately
so u dont care about the other ppl that died?
It makes me think....
HMMMM should girls really play basket bal?? Naaa Leave it to the BOYZ
@@TheMichalkorejtko I’m thinking you failed Reading Comprehension 1A. Look at the last 4 words 🤦♀️
He needed a Co-pilot! Bless their hearts!
Copilot would have done nothing...what they needed was a terrain + Radar warning system or don't fly in the fog period.
@@DenisDamulira23 true
D. Corey correct
@@DenisDamulira23 Wrong. I co-pilot all the time and we have influence over the pilot or we will literally take over the controls. Both helicopters and airplanes. I hate the terrain avoidance system. It's always screaming warning, warning, warning in your headset and it's actually a distraction to your flying. Often, the obstacle is miles away yet it's screaming in your headset. It's no risk at all.
D. Corey yes it would if in the situation of maybe if the other had a heart attack in this video or just an extra lookout
I wonder if the pilot had some type of stroke or heart attack?!
I think so ; the rapid decent rate, and the fact that the chopper hit the ground at an est. 170 mph says some thing very bad happened to the pilot or the chopper. R.I.P. to all on board.
@s ofg Go home kid
@@rookeva8688 Go away Republican!
@s ofg that's such an awful thing to say. You need help.
@@dabking94.19 what he said was very terrible. Don't bring politics to this. You degenerate fool.
this makes me think the pilot passed out or something , to not reply then just fall that quick did he collapse on a joy stick , i dont know maybe someone who has experience in helicopters can answer that
No, stop putting misguided nonsense into the ether. Several experts have commented on what they believe happened, how about searching that out instead of making asinine claims
Yep,
@@davidvaughn9 and what did your "experts" tell you sir? And just bc a "expert" BELIEVES (not know)anything does not make it true
Interesting point @markcapel
@@davidvaughn9 no need to be fucking rude hey at the end of the day they all lost there lives why don't we all fucking wait for the final say for starters the pilot was not at fault his company is the one that disregarded the weather
my heart aches for everyone who passed away, including the pilot, and the families. just imagine the pain their families went through when the heard the news. the last words of the people on board, the terror they must have felt. they were so young, they deserved so much more. rip to everyone
For people saying that Kobe would've been mad if the driver went to emergency landing, news flash: THE HELICOPTER DRIVER HAS THE FULL AUTHORITY IN THE WHOLE DURATION OF A FLIGHT.
They are called PILOTS...
Ikr
If he disobeys Kobe's request, Kobe complains to the owner and the pilot gets fired. Or Kobe uses a different helicopter company next time.
@@maxv3208 Well, I guess the silver lining of a global superstar dying like this is now people will listen to their pilots and believe them if something is fishy and needs to have an emergency landing.
@@jamirimaj6880 @
I'm from Argentina, I don't even like basketball so much, but I'm still disturbed by this tragedy, maybe because how big Kobe was, maybe because I have a daughter, maybe because it could have been avoided.
Avoided for sure
@kirk mitchell maybe... but you don't know how to interpret a text... bye
@@menamusica that was a perfect reply, RIP tho 😭 2 months later and im still thinkin bout it
This is bad, they should have tried emergency landing seeing there was a problem on air. So so sad😥
Rowland Sparkle there was a helipad within a mile of the crash...
😥 can imagine the scream inside when it was about crashing, when something like that (helicopter) have a fault, other things will not function, making the doors unable to open. Always get a chill all over my body each time I think of it.
Or just land I'm an empty field
@@rowlandsparkle4499 There was debris scattered over 5-600', I doubt that there were any doors left intact, not to mention they died on impact. Whether a door would open or not is pretty much moot at that point.
I think you guys are assuming they knew they were in real danger with anytime to react to it. No emergency terrain detection on the helicopter, multiple eye witnesses near by said they could hear it above them but couldn't see it because the fog was so bad, if they had any idea they were going to crash and die, it had to have been very very last second. Hitting the ground at that speed everybody guaranteed died on impact. Prob very little time to even process fear. I'm sure if something mechanical went wrong, he would have auto roated that thing back to the ground. Just seems like a fatal pilot error discombobulation
On a sunday it just seems faster to have driven, it's a hour and a half drive
Right....Sunday morning...so much gridlock smh kobe got comfy 💔
Pablo Camacho underrated comment man why hasn’t anyone one in the news brought that up same thing I was thinking , I’m a truck driver and you can drive anywhere in LA without the normal gridlocked traffic at that time
Pablo Camacho I was thinking the same thing..it was a 40 minute helicopter flight from orange county to calabasas..maybe an hour plus in a car..I guess it was destiny for them to go out like that..sad, but we'll never know...rip everybody on that flight..
Agreed
Good and valid point. Probably Kobe didn’t know much about aviation weather, what a METAR is, a TAF... he probably thought the pilot would do his homework.
Everybody keep saying the pilots having a heart attack or had a stroke or something medically happened to him what you people don't understand this was meant to happen the pilot knew this was happening you could tell he was nervous when he was speaking he didn't respond back to the controls at the operator for 50 seconds he was a very experienced pilot one person who's had training from him said there's nothing that he cannot do when it comes to Flying a helicopter so what you guys don't understand he knew he was going to kill Kobe and his daughter along with his self this is what happens when you offer blood sacrifice to Satan open your guys's eyes don't be blind and don't be deaf listen here see and understand
True
RIP KOBE and gigi also everyone else on board
Why couldn't the helicopter just do an emergency landing on any piece of wide land? Watching this just made me nervous.. 😓 🙏
I thought the same thing. It's like he was flying blindly in that fog. Everybody on board must of been nervous from the start. I'm now thinking they didn't realise they was going to die so suddenly
seems experienced pilots just dont do that. they are trained to fly not to cancel the flights. this only regular(normal) people would do. but that's the reason they never fly.
@Mook Wolf we have no idea. There's no data box.
@Mook Wolf flying blind doesn't explain the dropping 300 feet in 14 second and reaching up to 170mph. In that weather no pilot would intentionally fly the irradically. Maybe engine failure and because of fog it was too difficult to properly do an auto rotation landing is my guess
Riley Christian or maybe a missile hit it 🤷🏽♂️ fell that quick that high? Hmmmmm
4:45 the pilot sounds nervous and distressed with a nervousness in his voice. whoa...conditions were getting bad or he must have had a bad feeling about this...
I don't hear what you do
The FAA’s helicopter flying handbook states that losing all visual references during a flight “can cause sensory overload” for a pilot, who can then lose the ability to think rationally.
This is most likely what happened. My family friend is a pilot and said that he once flew into fog and couldn’t tell that his plane was on a 40 degree angle ... Up was down, down was up, fast seemed slow, etc. it was the worst experience of his life. This is probably what happened.
Spatial disposition
people saying kobe is responsible for what happened in the crash
@@angelpaige685 he is responsible because he made them take the 101 instead of the 118. The reason was so he could show others his academy from the air
Dang
@@davidp2707 how u know that how can he show them anything in s fog
We don't know the pilot, - please be respectful. I was just told the pilot was a VERY experienced one, who had flown this route many many times in all kind of weather. There is a Police helicopter pad little under a mile from the crash, - maybe he knew this and could therefore answer the sudden last turn. So sad.
Why did the chopper lack the instruments to fly itself.
But he could have had a medical emergency as well , right? If so, that could explain the reason why the helicopter veered off course.
He is also a older man
Pilots make mistakes no matter how experienced you are.
@bobsidog I’m not sure if it did, though
Y he didn’t land it any where I just don’t understand it
He commited suicide
Maybe he had a seizure or something because he stops talking and whenever they would ask him stuff prior he would answer quickly then all of a sudden he stops answering and guns it or heart attack or he just decided to end this .. it’s not normal
Plus there’s video from the ground looking up and u see the chopper that means he should have been able to se below
Idk but seems like some kind of malfunction as they lost contact..seems kinda like he tried to regain control and it just nose dived. He didn’t sound like someone trying to die.
Debra Salinas - Those videos from the ground were NOT in the area that it was foggy... just low clouds. And, the area they crashed in had hills and mountains at a higher elevation and had fog coming in from the ocean through the pass that highway 101 goes through
I think the pilot got disoriented because of thick fog, and he's turning 180 to back on track
The pilot should’ve landed instead of circling that airspace, It would’ve taken them 45mins tops to get there via car from that spot
He probably he couldn’t see, turned around and dropped altitude to get under then fog but seems like he ignored or couldn’t hear the air control person. By then it was to late
Tsunami Waving you can’t just land where ever you feel like lol
yeah maybe the pilot disoriented with the fogs and had an attack that triggered their horrible situation and this happened very quickly maybe during that transition from van nuys to socal
Zahin R it was over by the Burbank airport numbnuts
It seems that when his tower got changed to so cal he wasn't answering. Could have had something medical happen
He wasnt answering because her was too low for the radio to work properly.
You actually only are hearing one side of the convo when hes taking to Socal because the Helicopter's side wasn't being recorded. A expert pointed this out in another video.
Another risk in riding helicopters as oppose to an airplane.. there’s no copilot on helicopters
I noticed that too!!! hhhhmmmm
brent stockton what other video?
Something just dont sit well with me about this
Brandy Vann trust your gut ok don’t let anyone tell you otherwise ok.
Something in my gut tells me this was no accident there's faul play here. That helicopter flew 178/180miles into a bush/ into the side of a mountain .that pilot had 13yrs experience. .they were all assassinated. Lord God give us strength. .this energy is freaky all over the world too ever since this happened same shit happened wit nipsey same energy they killing OUR greats. Please let me be wrong. Lord bless us all.RIP
Brandy I bn thinking the same thing too
Dee .F.D You’re an Idiot.
You also can’t spell.
Just because the pilot had 13 years experience, doesn’t mean anything.
I would tell you to watch the video and listen to the audio, but you’re too stupid to understand it.
Becki Green stfu
To those of you asking if the pilot had a medical emergency, there's no reason to come to that conclusion. This was a textbook case of spatial disorientation. The pilot knew that he couldn't proceed any further and was trying to climb up to a safe altitude to avoid the terrain and head back the way he came. The problem is it's very easy to drift when hovering in fog, and when you climb in those conditions you can easily lose control and end up inverting the craft with too little altitude to recover. It can happen to the best of them, and happen fast. Kind of a perfect storm scenario. The delay at Burbank allowed the conditions in Calabasas to deteriorate before they could get through. The terrain, the fog, the frustration, the kids ... one slight lapse of judgment and it's over.
that sums it up.
Jew and Greek so it just stalled out and they hit a free fall?
Reasonable scenario 👍makes sense..
This is the most likely scenario that has happened many times before. Just last year a pilot crashed into a tower in New York with heavy fog and low visibility. If only the helicopter had a CVR and FDR, would have better data than what the flight tracker shows.
I agree
No way such an experienced pilot would fall to the ground at that speed. It was either intentional or he passed out from so much pressure and anxiety.
Disoriented too!
I agree with you 100 %
He was a sacrifice
Agree 100percent.
On the 26th he died. Kobes 24 and Giggis 2.. This death was planned and orchestrated.
All the pilot had to say was " sorry mr.bryant this isn't a good time to fly
I a sure he did. Read my full article nba2k11dlc.blogspot.com/2020/02/nba-stories-kobe-bryant-1978-2020.html
It wasn't Kobe's fault, they interviewed another pilot who he use to fly with Kobe all the time and asked if Kobe had ever pressured him about flying in unsafe weather and he said no Kobe was all about safety. And if the pilot would of said its not safe to fly Kobe being the family man he is he would not of put all their lives at risk like that!
The owner or lessee (lease) in this case always has the last say on GO or No Go. That guy was Kobe Bryant. Bryant trusted the pilot and the other 7 passengers trusted Bryant.
I think he did but you know my boy kobe wanted everything on that same spot. He was a guy that wanted everything good and well done. Maybe the pilot follow kobe orders instead of the airport.
Stolen comment
Wow now I feel that something malfunctioned in mid air because the pilot was responding very consciously and then the plane just veered and all of a sudden it was flying too low to get further following instructions..... man this breaks my heart...
It was foggy on that day. Pilot had planned to use the highway as a visual reference but the visibility must have been horrible if he had to fly so close to the ground. It's quite likely that the pilot had tried to u-turn out of the area. Unfortunately, due to the poor visibility, he ended up diving into the side of the hill. ppl think it's a textbook example of CFIT (controlled flight into terrain), a combination of bad weather plus human error.
Nothing malfunctioned. Many pilts die by going into the clouds. Your helicopter can go sideways/upside down in literally 5 seconds if youre not paying attention to instruments or making great effort to remain level without looking at instruments.
@@melvinthedeathless.melvint6727 He wasn't close to the ground, he climbed into the clouds in the final moments of the crash, then came plummeting down at extremely high speeds. Obvious indication that he lost control.
Melvinthedeathless .Melvinthedeathless exactly....
iHateDentists in the ocean water can have whirlpool effect. Can that apply with clouds too?
My question is, If he couldn't see the ground through the dense cloud cover, why didn't he watch his Altimeter to determine his elevation? So sad.
It literally could be anything. Won't know for a while
Altimeters dont detect hills and mountains, they measure air column pressure. Radar detects mountains and hills.
Your question is the same question from the people who knew about operating helicopter. VFR vs IFR; he chose VFR. I think he should choose IFR mode to fly in that condition right?
I think he got disoriented once he climbed into the clouds to avoid terrain. I feel that explains the sudden and rapid drop in altitude at the end. It's very difficult to go from VFR to IFR at low altitude in mountainous terrain. It can get the best of us! So it seems it did...
Looks like a malfunction not pilot mistake...
Flight data recorder should have been installed really and a camera should have been installed too.
Remember this was dense fog so he couldn’t see anything on the ground like in this video. This is what it would’ve been on a sunny day.
actually when you here tower control tell him visibility is 2 and 1/2 thats 2 1/2 miles of visibility 1100' foot ceiling is 1100' feet to clouds above
@@MrHarrisjp they may have said he had 2.5 miles of vis but that doesn't mean he did...
Maxima Ur Speed! Very fishy, so Maeday
@Maxima Ur Speed! what if he got a heart attack or something like that and thats why it makes that sudden turn and drops
Radi can detect fog miles ahead.dont. Be fooled.they killed his illuminati purpet
FAA, how is a Black Box not mandatory? Now we may never know if it was a mechanical problem or the pilot was disoriented.
Ironically, the NTSB has recommended (which is all they can do) that black boxes be mandatory in helicopters. It's the FAA who is responsible for the regulations, and they haven't followed through on the NTSB suggestions.
That helicopter has two engines and can fly with one working. Rest assured, it was the pilot error.
In not one comment do I see people commenting on how the eye witness said they heard the engine stall out right before the crash
I'm thinking the pilot might of passed out or had some kind of medical condition for the first time. Nothing else makes any sense.
Justin-ztd Kobe Bryant is a licensed pilot
Thia might be something to look into.
Yebumhole in 14 seconds you don’t have time to get in the seat to fly
Yebumhole Kobe probably could of lived if he would of took control over the helicopter
Very possible💔
Something went wrong.. when he tried to climb high above the weather... after a minute it was like his mind could tell left from right. He freaked out.
Spatial Disorientation, a VFR rated pilot flying in IFR conditions.
It’s weird how the pilot didn’t respond to so cal tower and then he crashed
Christian Garcia Wonder if he was already dead or no communication..
It was said that there was bad reception
Yeah i wonder if there was a medical condition happen, and he lost control
ruclips.net/video/t7dHUCnxQD0/видео.html this video explains why
ofc he replied, but the investigation experts have them. Its obvious that he communicated 2/3 times but its not recorded.
Why did the pilot just stop communicating at the end but keep flying? and why did he drop his elevation so quickly? Does not add up to me
So your gonna fucking try to talk while dropping like a lead ball moron? Or are you gonnna try every trick of the trade to regain control? Here im free falling let me see what air traffic control can do for me . Grow up nut job conspiracy theorist.
Actually the pilot was still talking to the air traffic controller, however the pilots voice was not recorded when he switched over to SoCal a.t.c. This is explained in another video, go to 7:00 on the following... ruclips.net/video/t7dHUCnxQD0/видео.html
Spatial Disorientation, a VFR rated pilot flying in IFR conditions.
I wonder if the pilot was having a heart attack or something
Yes at 5:27 his last transmission he sounded weak. And didnt even roger correctly he said 34.2 instead of 134 plus he never reaponded after that.
@@Mane_ea yeah the pilot suddenly went AWOL and crashed
Yes, I was wondering too :(
He just happened to have a heart attack in dense fog? Think for a second
xhamster u cannot immagine how many bullshits i red here in this comment section, everyone here became suddendly an engineer, doctor, pilot... amazing
Is it me or did the pilot say 34.2 instead of 134.2? He was on the wrong channel and in vfr conditions he needed guidance. Once he couldn’t establish the 134.2 which was the correct channel, he was at 34.2 because you can here him say that and not the 134.2. The fog got him disoriented.
Pilot sounded like he was nervous.
Skyline Godzilla -- flying in fog, clouds. He was likely disorientated.
What's his accent? Just curious. Definitely foreigner.
The pilot was Armenian.
He wasn’t sure of what he was doing he knew this would end up reallynbad
@@genesisb1074 I hope he alerted them then. So they could say their last prayers
A pilots heart attack is the only thing I can think of right now, other wise he could’ve landed somewhere
Dairin Colmenares maybe a heart attack pass out on controls switches causing helicopter to decent
definitely a heart attack
@Teddy Li Damn bro you got the whole squad laughing.
This accident make no sense, even in extreame conditions, an aircraft of that size is impossible to malfunction unless the pilot did this on purpose.
Other LA based Helo Pilots are saying he hit a wall of fog and either tried to go up to clear it or turn around. But in both instances he looses his sense of level and spatial surrounding because of the fog and the Helo went hard left down and was not enough time to recover. But heart attack or health episode was my next theory too!
Also he would have seen the fog and disobeyed company policy and the FAA by flying into the fog. So he is sadly negligent on that count. Also why was he flying do fast into inclement weather with known hills in his flight plan.
Senseless accident... Should have never flown in those conditions... Consequences. RIP Kobe and GiGi .. and all the souls who went home that day.
Is it possible the pilot had heart attack or blackout???
This has to really be looked into..something is dark and odd about this.
I’ve been thinking something might have happened to the pilot too but if that happened I think the crash would have landed on a house or a street or store but it crashed out where nobody was so I think the pilot was aware of that and tried to steer them away from a place that people were likely at
Why didn’t he respond? They hadn’t crashed yet? He could’ve said something, right? Or even yelled? 🤔
Communication isn't possible at such a low altitude.
maybe your in thick clouds and you lose reception did you think about that
What made them suddenly plummet?
@@HopeandI That's what authorities are trying to figure out now.
@@4wheelerDJ why do you lose reception to the other people when your low they should make improvements or was it just his helicopter
Other reports are conflicting this. It has been said that he was going to climb for flight following. Why has that audio not been available when all the rest has? I want the black box data.
rip kobe and gigi bryant in our hearts forever ❤️
My guess is this pilot flew into a cloud or heavy fog which caused 0 visibility and instead of switching to IFR (Instrument flight rules) he tried to fly out of the fog without visual references. He banked hard to the left without knowing his position relative to the ground which caused the helicopter to pick up speed. When he finally excited the fog he was to low and going to fast and was unable to avoid crashing into the ground.
This make more logical sense to me than what the media is saying. I wanted step by step visual.
So sad.
R.I.P. to all of the victims. 🙏🙏🙏
@A Redden "Demands?"
....basically you're saying it's Kobe's fault??
I wonder could everyone else could hear this or just the pilot
Just the pilot
RIP to all who passed in this tragedy.
Im certain that there was a problem with the pilot, maybe he was disoriented, or unconscious..
@@vinnieortega 'Suicide' .....Wow.....
It was spatial disorientation. Pure and simple. Another factor: I just read LA Times article "Helicopter diverted from usual route." The transition from following Hwy 118 west to Camarillo, to flying southwest to intersect and follow (the usual) 101 west, proved deadly...I think pilot wanted to usual his usual 101 route to destination so much so that he flew to the path with the worst weather. He could've just followed the 118 west ALL the way to Camarillo since he was VFR when flying up there at 1500' MSL (per radio call before he requested turn to SW to get to 101); it was more inland, further from coast and fog. So sad... so unforgiving... sigh...Here's the LA Times piece: www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation
Those people contributed to his death. I would feel dizzy going around like that.. special respect to pilots I just started realizing you guys do the most dangerous jobs
I felt dizzy just watching this video!
I've been saying alllllll along. The air traffic controllers sounded nervous and we're studdering. That holding pattern disoriented the pilot.
VFR pilot flying in IFR conditions. He had no business flying that day, except Money.
@@alainconnelly8870 You're an idiot. You think a holding pattern well before going into the clouds is what disoriented the fkn pilot. Dude, stick to shit you know anything about. This definitely isn't it.
Holding patterns are pretty gentle turns. They don't make anyone dizzy.
I’m not an expert or anything but shouldn’t there be two pilots?
I want to know who has time to record random helicopters above. Mindblowing
Jake Martinez 🧐
instagram.com/p/B7zteYhlljk/?
He record coz he saw something weird happens on the helicopter circling around for 15 minutes. I saw his interview.
Exactly!!!! Why niggas recording 3mins into the flight🧐
The CIA, NSA and the rest of it. That's who. Watch the movie SNOWDEN.
RIP to Kobe, his daughter and all the families. May God have mercy upon you all. God bless all the families that are left to cope. Blessings upon us all. Amen!🙏😭🙏💜💛💜💛
I get sad whenever I hear or see this story ! It’s very depressing 😭😭😢 and I wish I can go back in time to stop that flight (even if I had only 30 minutes I will have made a change ) but it’s too late now I guess . RIP GIGI . RIP KOBE . RIP TO ALL THE FAMILIES ON THAT FLIGHT!! I pray you all rest in HEAVEN with THE LORD . I’m heartbroken 💔💔💔
Even if you did that Kobe and the others will look at u like u crazy and will call security and they would've still took flight.If me and you would try to convince that something bad would happen we prolly don't have a chance of saving them from getting on the chooper
I wish I had a time machine as well. Curious, how would you have prevented this?
@Thicc Squidward they will still get on and get another one .
Talking about going back in time to save someone you don’t know lol why not save one of your fam members?
@@YourPlug1 I will have done that as well ! Save as much as I can !
I heard in one of the interviews by NTSB. That its gonna take a year and a half for them to do all the test and figure out what caused the crash.
williejames huff an idiot*
Al Phuckya oof
@@detroit1018 what does oof mean???
@williejames huff the weather was clear when they took off, it just got foggy along the way
Hubris caused it
So sad they’d all still be alive today if it was just a clear sky day instead of foggy. It’s easy to forget how quick death can occur while living our lives
100% Pilot error. you dont need a runway to land a helicopter
Tragic and so unesesary😞
endwood no accident is necessary 🤣
NY Nurse obvisously mean the pilot shouldnt have even flown considering the conditions... this was totally preventable
FitLife 120 no, not necessarily.
Statistics prove its more likely you’ll die on the ground in a car than any mode of air travel...regardless of weather.
NY Nurse i hear u but if there’s indications of horrible weather causing low visibility then no one should make the call to travel is the point!
FitLife 120 the point is if there was reason NOT to fly he wouldn’t have flight clearance from the numerous ATCs (air traffic control centers) during the SCHEDULED flight path...they didn’t just randomly decide to fly to the camp that day...Kobe’s pilot likely had an entire month or beyond tentative flight schedules submitted.
Helicopters aren’t cars, you don’t just hop into one and fly around...clearance is required for all take offs and landings AT ALL TIMES...violating these regs would cause a pilot a citation and likely suspension of their FAA pilot’s license...in other words...pilots aren’t “drivers”...pilots don’t ‘make the call’ to fly or not, ATC does.
Google FAA rules and regs sometimes.
Respectfully,
Nurse Dee, USAF Veteran pilot and current civilian licensed pilot.
:)
The most important information here is why did he not respond, what happened the last 30 seconds, it's like he had a stroke or something, now that would make sense to all this, slumped over and accelerated, that's the only thing I can think of the facts given...
Jerome Garcia exactly I originally thought he maintained radio communication but now it’s obvious something either went wrong with the helicopter or the pilot.
It is a possibility that foul play is the culprit. I have heard that Kobe had made a disparaging comment about Donald Trump. [ www.snopes.com/fact-check/kobe-bryant-trump-quote/ ] ......
So, is this what may have happened to the Hellicopter?
VIDEO: ruclips.net/video/-9WcxqQbGn0/видео.html
I have seen a VIDEO of 2 helicopters flying over the crash site. I don't know how long after the crash happened that these 2 helicopters were over the crash site..... probably not too long after it happened, though. The fog didn't look so bad then...just saying.
I agree 100%. I questioned that right away he had clear contact then it’s like he chose not to answer... I just don’t know smh
Steve Sinner you’re dumb
Or he's trying to fly the ship. Aviate, Navigate and Communicate in that order.
I swear it sounds like the pilot had a heart attack during flight.
Quincy Sloan wow, others have said this too, where in the recording makes you think that. You are very observant in listening, I am not.
I’ve never been in a helicopter before but the circling of the same area would’ve probably raised my suspicions as a passenger. Kobe Bryant had been on countless flights, I wonder did he or anyone else start to question the situation to themselves or aloud.
RIP to all souls lost on board.
They were waiting for another aircraft to clear the area
Standard Flight Procedure in That Area. It is a Normal Holding Pattern before getting Permission to Cross the Burbank Airport Flight Path.
Something feels eerie about this. I’m not so sure it was just an accident.
It was foggy and they went anyway and the pilot messed up it was a accident nobody would do somerhing like that
Was thinking similar after watching the video
I think it was all planned
I had that thought of intentional go through my mind too
Helicopters fall out the sky a lot. I wouldn't fuck with them. But this wasn't intentional. This was a major fuck up. NTSB said this helicopter did not have the safety devices needed to fly around that terrain in foggy conditions. Altitude changes quickly around hills. The gage could be reading 1500 ft but if the terrain rises it will be to late to notice in the fog and without the proper devices.
Guys that has to be the most scariest way to go! Imagine knowing this going down and see just how foggy it was. You can barely see the helicopter.
Flying 1400 in heavy urban area puts a varity of things in your path.
Birds, Wires, Towers, Drones just to name a few. To be honest this was suicide from the start. Million dollar aircraft has more than enough instruments to guide a pilot.
Looks like we've got a licensed pilot over here.
Yet no helicopter terrain awareness and warning system. Thanks, FAA!! The NTSB has been pushing for HTAWS and black boxes on helios for over a decade now. The FAA is really the tombstone agency. They let the bodies pile up before they do anything.
Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
@@don7294 Don't helicopters have a terrain alarm?
@@gt362gamer They are not required by the FAA to have them even after decades of fatal crashes. Most rescue and emergency helicopters use them. This situation is so terribly sad. I don't know if an HTAWS would have helped. The pilot may have been transitioning from VFR(visual) to IMC (instrument) and lost control. It happens way too often. Unfortunately, public and proactive safety measures are NOT the top priority of the FAA.