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Originally Posted by floridaorange
Being super successful and admired by so many - but then also not listening to those who know more about aviation/visibility and as a result not only killing themselves but others and their children as a result. The Stockton character was a big risk taker evidently, Kobe's pilot's accident was more of a surprise in a sense. My sister in law was working out next to him at Equinox the day before he died, he just came to mind regarding successful + deadly risk taking resulting in killing his own and others in the process. To me that's an extra big blindspot in ones ego to make such a costly mistake and being that high profile of a person, you'd think they would know better.
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The pilot had more to do with the crash than Kobe. I worked the LA basin (LAX specifically) for many, many moons. I listened to the tape and watched the replay more than once (though not recently). Kobe may or may not have had getthereitis, but the pilot could've/should've climbed vertically to get out of the muck (the tops were pretty low, IIRC). Why he went full speed ahead toward higher terrain in the clouds (rotor-wing rules are different than fixed-wing) is beyond me. Also, why didn't he get flight following before he did? He was too low for radar tracking when he finally did call, and then it was too late.