Attorneys for Vanessa Bryant filed a wrongful death suit against the company that operated the helicopter that crashed, killing Kobe and Gianna Bryant and seven others.
The lawsuit accuses Zobayan, Bryant’s longtime pilot, of several acts of negligence including failing to abort the flight, failing to monitor and assess the weather, and failure to keep a safe distance between natural obstacles and the helicopter.violating visual flight rules minimums
and the FAA operating certificate for Island Express limited its pilots to flying under visual flight rules, not conditions that necessitate the use of instruments. “On information and belief, Defendant Island Express Helicopters employed Defendant Zobayan with conscious disregard of the rights or safety of others and authorized or ratified his wrong conduct, and itself engaged in conduct with malice, oppression, or fraud,” the complaint states.
The lawsuit alleges the company did not provide “adequate training and/or supervision” after the FAA citation “to ensure the negligent action did not re-occur” and claims it “promoted and engaged in unnecessary and needlessly risky means of transport under the circumstances.” The complaint also faults the company for not having “an adequate safety policy for cancellation of flights into known unsafe weather conditions.
Island Express suspended operations indefinitely following the crash. A previous version of the company’s website advertised the company as operating “the West Coast’s largest fleet of Sikorsky S-76 passenger aircraft, the most-trusted name in helicopters” and being family owned since 1986.“He was the guy you’d want in any kind of emergency situation,” Neville told The Times last month.
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