Kobe Bryant Dies in Helicopter Crash

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:35 pm

Per TMZ.

https://www.tmz.com/2020/01/26/kobe-bry ... calabasas/" target="_blank

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:40 pm

What?

TatetheGreat · Post by **TatetheGreat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:41 pm

Unreal....

RIP

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:49 pm

ABC station in LA confirms the report.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:49 pm

...wow

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:51 pm

Holy Shit.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:53 pm

Jesus. No matter what anyone thought about the guy this is huge. Awful stuff.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:56 pm

Just sad. So young and he had many worthwhile projects in the works

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:59 pm

4 kids left, including a baby.

Postmaster · Post by **Postmaster** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:00 pm

Helicopter rash near Calabasas

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:07 pm

Deepest condolences to everyone. What a severing of everything. Take us all back to when we woke up this morning so we can try this again.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:11 pm

Scheer is right.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:12 pm

Do we know if his wife or kids were on board?

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:13 pm

Alieberman wrote:Do we know if his wife or kids were on board?

Wife no, kids don't know.

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:14 pm

ASUHATER! wrote:
Alieberman wrote:Do we know if his wife or kids were on board?
Wife no, kids don't know.

Wife and kids were both not on the flight.

Edit: There's reports that his children were on the helicopter with him, but nothing confirmed. Jesus Christ I hope that's not the case.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:14 pm

Merkin wrote:Scheer is right.

Yeah considering literally everyone playing in the NBA currently idolized him growing up.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:25 pm

Wow, the day after LeBron passed him for 3rd all time in scoring

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:29 pm

Hoping those kids were not on the flight but a local LA news channel is saying Kobe and his 4 daughters were on board. That is just devastating

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:30 pm

azcat49 wrote:Hoping those kids were not on the flight but a local LA news channel is saying Kobe and his 4 daughters were on board. That is just devastating

Can't be completely true. Five confirmed killed including the pilot.

Maybe the baby was not on board?

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:41 pm

TMZ is saying his 13 year old daughter was on the helicopter with him.

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:48 pm

So awful.

RIP

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:57 pm

JMarkJohns · Post by **JMarkJohns** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:02 pm

A former student in LA sent me a message reading OMG and linked to the earliest if reports of crash. Student said he is hearing it was Kobe. Within Minutes TMZ was reporting Kobe had died. When reports of his daughters being on board surfaced, I reached out but hadn’t heard back. I’d hoped the remaining family was safe. The fact this was a father and daughter practicing basketball on a Sunday afternoon destroys me.

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:03 pm

Ugh. He was one of the best ambassadors for the game and even the WNBA. Eyes are a bit misty right now and the world was robbed of what would have been one of the best HOF speeches ever given.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:18 pm

Man...

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:26 pm

ASUHATER! wrote:
Merkin wrote:Scheer is right.

Yeah considering literally everyone playing in the NBA currently idolized him growing up.

I can't believe they aren't cancelling these games today. Hater is right... all of these current players idolized him and dreamt of being the next Kobe.

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:28 pm

Yeah, they need to just cancel. This is too much.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:33 pm

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:38 pm

Here is a video of the team Kobe coached. His daughter Gigi had skills. Watching the video, you can see how well Kobe coached them,

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:41 pm

Not an nba or Kobe fan, but I acknowledge greatness when I see it, what he did for the game, and his being a dad hanging out with his daughter then this happened. Sucks, really really terrible. Pretty sad over this.

RIP Kobe and GiGi

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:43 pm

Alieberman wrote:

Pop knew what to do

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:39 pm

He was one of my favorites. I’m pretty much devastated right now. Can’t even begin to imagine what his family and friends are going through.

RIP to a legend

HiCat · Post by **HiCat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:54 pm

https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-news-ka ... gic-death/" target="_blank
Kareem

https://www.dailynews.com/2020/01/26/ko ... rs-legend/" target="_blank
Doc Rivers

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/kobe ... s-passing/" target="_blank

Frybry02 · Post by **Frybry02** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:02 pm

Now there are reports there were 9 on board including the pilot

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:28 pm

Chicat wrote:He was one of my favorites. I’m pretty much devastated right now. Can’t even begin to imagine what his family and friends are going through.

RIP to a legend

I’m so sorry, J.

And I’m sorry to everyone.

I keep thinking about when he was a rookie. Such a kid among men. Del kept him bridled but he burst out and just overtook everyone.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:31 pm

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:37 pm

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:38 pm

Maybe 9 dead now being reported

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:39 pm

Alieberman wrote:Maybe 9 dead now being reported

Yep, confirmed by the NY Times

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:47 pm

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:52 pm

Reminds me of when Stevie Ray went.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:16 pm

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:43 pm

UAEebs86 wrote:

What does this mean?

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:44 pm

CalStateTempe wrote:
UAEebs86 wrote:
What does this mean?

Shouldn't have been flying

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:49 pm

Ugh, damn.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:57 pm

Follow up tweet. A controlled flight into terrain(CFIT) is an accident in which an airworthy aircraft, under pilot control, is unintentionally flown into the ground, a mountain, a body of water or an obstacle. In a typical CFIT scenario, the crew is unaware of the impending disaster until it is too late.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlle ... to_terrain" target="_blank

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 6:01 pm

Damn is right. They'd all still be alive now if just one person in the group insisted on driving.

It's the grief talking, maybe. But like with so many aviation accidents in bad weather, this could've been averted if people hadn't insisted on rushing things. Nobody HAS to be ANYwhere on a Sunday.

That said, Kobe will be remembered not for his mistakes but for his great spirit and generosity, qualities that both surpassed one or two errors in judgment, long since atoned for. RIP.

Frybry02 · Post by **Frybry02** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 6:37 pm

catgrad97 wrote:Damn is right. They'd all still be alive now if just one person in the group insisted on driving.

It's the grief talking, maybe. But like with so many aviation accidents in bad weather, this could've been averted if people hadn't insisted on rushing things. Nobody HAS to be ANYwhere on a Sunday.

That said, Kobe will be remembered not for his mistakes but for his great spirit and generosity, qualities that both surpassed one or two errors in judgment, long since atoned for. RIP.

I am not aviation expert but I have to think dozens if not hundreds of small personal aircraft flew in those conditions and made it to their destination. I also have to think Bryant's helicopter has flown in conditions similar if not worse with how many years he has lived in Orange county.

I know this is completely speculative, but sounds like this pilot should have been flying using instruments and not visually.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 6:51 pm

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 6:53 pm

Margin of error in bad weather at low altitude is razor thin. Hard to imagine a well-trained, experienced pilot not trusting instrumentation under no visual conditions, but it happens. Pilots have inverted their ships because they just know they're inverted even when they're not. The circling behavior likely indicates some panic disorientation, maybe followed by poor judgement as to real location within the surrounding terrain.

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