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Originally Posted by Coyote
The mishap board is our best shot at determining the causes. But that is slow and deliberate.
TMZ on the pilot from other pilots that TMZ found again:
“ Even more baffling, we've been told the pilot was extremely experienced flying in that area -- and was even a flight instructor. One seasoned helicopter pilot told TMZ, he could not understand why Kobe's pilot would have maintained a speed of 161 knots in such dense fog. One of the benefits of a helicopter is you can go much slower -- even 15 mph -- to gingerly avoid terrain if you're uncertain.”
https://www.tmz.com/2020/01/27/kobe-...ain-slow-down/
And I don’t get all this concern about instrument flight....I’m kidding.
Mostly, says the guy with a Naval Special Instrument card and over 2000 hours of actual IMC time....
It does get your attention. Low level inadvertent IMC in rough terrain carrying pax (1of them Koby) I’m sure had the guy squeezing black juice out of the stick (cyclic) all the way through the end. Collective positioning at impact will be very telling of his last thoughts. |
I hate to say it. What if the pilot was suicidal? Remember the plane crash a few years ago where a pilot did that and took about 200 people with him into the French Alps.