Kobe Bryant Helo Incident

[bubblehead]

Sorry. I looked all over and did not see a thread for this...

pilot was scud running in hills with cloud on the ground and clipped a hill top hard, spinning down into the canyon. Pictures of impact area show a very hard high speed impact with the bird shredded into small pieces. Hot dog pilot pushing VFR flight in IFR conditions. Radar track shows him quickly going from 2300ft to 1200ft trying to squeeze between the ground and the cloud. This has killed lots of over confident helicopter pilots, and fixed wing pilots as well.
Controlled Flight Into Terrain. That is when a pilot flys a perfectly operation bird into the ground in bad weather.

this aircraft circled LA Zoo for 15 minutes due to bad weather - conditions which Los Angeles emergency services grounded their own aircraft - yet was allowed to continue it's flight

 

[ChuckMK23]

https://www.airwarriors.com/community/threads/kobe-bryant-flight-data.47087/

 

[cfam]

@ChuckMK23 That’s in the private helo forum, he doesn’t have access.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Roger roger - sorry.

 

[taxi1]

It's a bigger topic than just rotary. Move it to a private NA forum?

Was a member of a flight club owning a small aircraft, and this time last year one of our owners tried to do the same thing, with the same outcome.

 

[FormerRecruitingGuru]

Sorry. I looked all over and did not see a thread for this...

So it turns out... the original post got moved to the private forum.

 

[Pags]

Sorry. I looked all over and did not see a thread for this...

Where'd the quotes come from?

 

[Gatordev]

Will probably move it back to public view shortly.

Where'd the quotes come from?

I'd be interested to know that as well.

 

[nittany03]

OP had asked the other thread to be moved to Private Helos . . . Mod Squad is currently sorting.

 

[bubblehead]

Ah... Private Forum.. Explains why I could not locate the thread.

Quotes were from a non-military helicopter forum.

 

[Treetop Flyer]

There’s a private forum just for helos? What do y’all talk about besides that you had jet grades?

 

[Jim123]

There’s a private forum just for helos? What do y’all talk about besides that you had jet grades?

We talk about you.

 

[bubblehead]

It's a bigger topic than just rotary. Move it to a private NA forum?

Was a member of a flight club owning a small aircraft, and this time last year one of our owners tried to do the same thing, with the same outcome.

Noted in the quote as well:

This has killed lots of over confident helicopter pilots, and fixed wing pilots as well.

 

[ChuckMK23]

There’s a private forum just for helos? What do y’all talk about besides that you had jet grades?

NSS of 51 baby!

 

[Pags]

Will probably move it back to public view shortly.



I'd be interested to know that as well.

Yeah some of the conclusions in the quotes are....misinformed.