The area of the crash of the helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, the 26 January 2020. — Mark J. Terrill/AP/SIPA
We know a little more about the moments leading up to the crash of the helicopter that caused the death of
Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, as well as six other people. According to the survey, the pilot would have tried to get out of a thick fog in the taking of the altitude just before the aircraft hit the hill.
Ara Zobayan said in a radio exchange that he was going to climb up to 4,000 feet (1,200 meters) shortly before the helicopter crashed near Calabasas on January 26. A partial transcript of the communications between Zobayan and the air traffic controller is among the documents released Wednesday by the national Council of the transportation safety board (NTSB), in charge of the investigation.
Not a final report
“Uh, we climb to four thousand,” says Zobayan. “And then what are you going to do when you are in altitude ? “, replies the controller. Without response. Of the first elements of the investigation revealed that the helicopter had plunged several hundred feet before the accident occurs. The NTSB, which continues to carry out the investigation, pointed out that this “public folder” was not a final report “and that it does not contain analysis, conclusions, recommendations or determinations of probable cause” of the accident.
“As such, no conclusion on the cause of the accident and the way in which it is produced should not be drawn from the information contained in the file,” said the NTSB, which will publish its final report at a later date, yet to be determined. The death of Kobe Bryant, 41-year-old has caused a lively emotion in the world beyond the sport. In twenty years played in the Los Angeles Lakers, he won five titles of champion NBA, and been named best player of the League in 2007-2008.
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