The latest report by the National Transportation Safety Board continues to suggest more attention toward cloudy conditions and low visibility as leading factor in the crash that killed Kobe Bryant.
months away. But the latest report by the National Transportation Safety Board continues to suggest more attention toward cloudy conditions and low visibility as leading factor.focusing in some detail on the weather conditions. The NTSB noted that videos and photos from the public “depict fog and low clouds obscuring the hilltops.” The preliminary report repeatedly noted that the pilot had struggled with a low cloud ceiling.
The report included several photos, including one showing the chopper flying under cloudy conditions shortly before it hit a hill in Calabasas. The wreckage of the Jan. 26 helicopter crash in which Kobe Bryant and eight other people were killed.Investigators had asked the public for images of weather conditions at the time of the crash on the morning of Jan. 26, and some of those were released Friday. Witnesses said visibility had been very poor when they heard the chopper slam into the hillside.
“He judged it to be moving fast, traveling on a forward and descending trajectory. It started to roll to the left such that he caught a glimpse of its belly. He observed it for 1 to 2 seconds, before it impacted terrain about 50 feet below his position,” according to the report.
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