The company whose helicopter crashed and killed basketball star Kobe Bryant, his...
- The company whose helicopter crashed and killed basketball star Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others on Sunday was not certified to fly in foggy conditions requiring pilots to use only cockpit instruments, U.S. officials said on Friday.
“The preliminary information is Island Express’s 135 certificate did not allow for IFR flight,” Holloway said. “No other specifics are available at this time.”“There is only one way you can be in the clouds, on an I.F.R. flight plan or by accident,” Kurt Deetz, a pilot and former safety manager with the company, told the New York Times, referring to instrument flight rules.
The twin-engine helicopter slammed into a hillside in Calabasas, California, with clouds and fog limiting visibility.
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