A group text mentioned weather concerns prior to the flight, but they were dismissed by both the pilot and the flight coordinator
Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others on the aircraft were killed as they headed to a youth basketball game on a foggy January morning.
Weather and visibility were critical to the accident, a performance study from the National Transportation Safety Board pointed out in newly released documents. The documents -- more than a thousand pages -- detail much of the investigation. Those documents are not the final report in the case, which will determine the exact cause of the crash.
Before every flight with Bryant, a group text was always created in order to keep everyone in communication about the flights. That group text mentioned weather concerns prior to the flight, but they were dismissed by both the pilot and the flight coordinator.Records show the flight coordinator asked the aircraft pilot, Ara Zobayan, about the forecast one day before the scheduled flight.Zobayan checked in again on the day of the flight about weather conditions.
As the helicopter made its way north from Orange County to Burbank, clouds and fog worsened. The aircraft traveled along the 118 freeway toward its destination of Calabasas and the pilot was flying at an altitude of about 1,500 feet, records show.When asked his intentions, the pilot responded,"climbing to four thousand," but the helicopter was descending 17 seconds before the end of data, the report states.
In the past three years, four Island Express employees were approved to fly a Kobe Inc. charter flight: Zobayan, Garret Dalton, David Harvey and Josh Bagge.Emails obtained by the NTSB show between September and December, eight Island Express flights booked for high-profile celebrities were canceled due to poor weather, an Island Express employee said.This story was first published on CNN.
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