Kobe Bryant killed in helicopter crash

eddie wrote:I was about to watch that video then decided I didn’t want to depress myself at work.

Those poor people.

eddie wrote:I was about to watch that video then decided I didn’t want to depress myself at work.

Those poor people.

Ben Reilly wrote:One of the girls was Kobe's daughter; so sad.

Maddog wrote:


I'm not 100 percent sure this is real but if it is, this is worse than I expected. I was under the impression they slammed into a mountain in fog. Those poor people especially those two 13 year old girls went through hell for the last moments of their lives.  

Maddog wrote:

Maddog wrote:


I'm not 100 percent sure this is real but if it is, this is worse than I expected. I was under the impression they slammed into a mountain in fog. Those poor people especially those two 13 year old girls went through hell for the last moments of their lives.  

Yeah, after reading more reports, this video is bogus. If it's any consolation, they probably heard the alarms for low altitude go off, the pilot try to gain altitude, and then impacted that mountain at such a speed that it was over in an instant.

For some reason the pilot was flying low and about 200 mph, through the fog.  

Original Quill wrote:Helicopter crash kills 5 in Calabasas, California; no survivors

John Bacon
USA TODAY•January 26, 2020

Five people were killed when a helicopter slammed into a hillside near Malibu in Los Angeles County, authorities said.  [Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant was among the dead.]

The county Sheriff's Department said there were no survivors and that the investigation was continuing.

The crash took place in Calabasas, a city of about 25,000 people in the Santa Monica Mountains about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.  [Calabasas is popularly known as the community in which the residence of Kim Kardashian is situated.]  Art Marrujo, a dispatch supervisor with the Los Angeles County Fire Department, said firefighters quickly doused a blaze that raced through about an acre of brush.

There were no homes in the area, and no roadways were impacted by the crash that took place in foggy conditions, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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JulesV wrote:

Original Quill wrote:Helicopter crash kills 5 in Calabasas, California; no survivors

John Bacon
USA TODAY•January 26, 2020

Five people were killed when a helicopter slammed into a hillside near Malibu in Los Angeles County, authorities said.  [Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant was among the dead.]

The county Sheriff's Department said there were no survivors and that the investigation was continuing.

The crash took place in Calabasas, a city of about 25,000 people in the Santa Monica Mountains about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.  [Calabasas is popularly known as the community in which the residence of Kim Kardashian is situated.]  Art Marrujo, a dispatch supervisor with the Los Angeles County Fire Department, said firefighters quickly doused a blaze that raced through about an acre of brush.

There were no homes in the area, and no roadways were impacted by the crash that took place in foggy conditions, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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Basketball isn't big in Britain, I did not know of him, tho I may have heard the name in passing, a couple of times.

People almost everywhere on the planet were pouring out tributes to him.
The closest I have seen to a person who touched so many hearts on such a GLOBAL scale was our own Princess Diana.
Tennis star, Djokovic wept like a baby.
Clearly Kobe Bryant was a good man.