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The President does too.Queen Elizabeth uses the same style heli to get around as well.
The President does too.
What a POS seller, sells for thousands and can't ship for free. What a scrub
Fair enough. I know nothing about this crash, possibly its was 100% pilot related or 100% weather related. Seems crazy to me in 2020 a plane/helicopter can just fly into a hill.
But my point, after 25 years of trusting professionals to handle you sh*t, a foggy helicopter ride is probably normal.
The President does too.
It wasn’t the helicopter; the pilot wasn’t being responsible. The visibility sucked, to the point flights were being grounded. Even LA Co. Sheriffs grounded their air division.
The fact he had to hover around LA Co Zoo for 15 minutes before moving forward should’ve indicated that it probably wasn’t wise to fly out at that moment. He should’ve said Mr Bryant, conditions are not ideal right now so we need to wait. Make a phone call, and done.
I don’t think ESPN gets taken seriously. They are a joke of a network. Ever since they cut the deal with Barstool, their ratings have gone way down. The only reason they are still in business is because they broadcast all the college sports games. But they are loosing the b10 and b12 to Fox. Their shows like sports center, get up, first tike, Pardon the interruption and around the horns ratings are at a all time low. Just Imagine what they would have been if they stayed with Barstool.Agreed. But when a network news correspondent says it on ABC & ESPN it's a little different than random social media accounts saying it. Sadly, it's not necessarily more accurate but the standard is different.
LA law enforcement requires 2 miles visibility before launching a helo. Fresno requires 3 miles. I suspect, because of reported conditions, they should have never took off. As far as helo safety they are much safer than driving a car. Just as in car accidents driver operator judgement often the cause of accidentsWhile the common term is fog, it can get so thick from LA to San Fran along the coast it's called the "marine layer". The line of hills about 10 miles inland help keep it trapped and sitting along the whole way.
Thickest and wettest fog I've ever experienced.
Brother, I know you love Kobe, so I’m going to leave this alone soon. But people do dumb **** and take unnecessary risks all the time and get away with it until the day they don’t. Getting away with taking those unnecessary risks for a long time doesn’t mean they did the right thing taking those unnecessary risks.She's been flying with Kobe since she was a little girl... It wasn't unusual for them to take their Heli around to from places.
Brother, I know you love Kobe, so I’m going to leave this alone soon. But people do dumb **** and take unnecessary risks all the time and get away with it until the day they don’t. Getting away with taking those unnecessary risks for a long time doesn’t mean they did the right thing taking those unnecessary risks.
It’s like a guy who has a giant gun collection in his house. He could have it there for every day for 10 years with no problem. Then on the 10th year and 1st day his kid gets ahold of one of the guns and mistakenly scatters his brains all over the house.
Or a guy might have a pet tiger that never hurt anyone for 10 years. Nicest tiger you’ve ever seen. Then one day the tiger eats his kids.
I’ve been in the risk assessment and negligence assessment business probably longer than you’ve been alive, and it makes me sick to see adults take risks that put their kids and other people in danger unnecessarily. There’s enough danger in the world without putting your and other lives at risk unnecessarily to fly around in some tin box especially on a super foggy day.
I’m sorry you lost a dude who meant so much to you. I think you’re a phenomenal young dude. Take this as a hard lesson on taking foolish risks.
Brother, I know you love Kobe, so I’m going to leave this alone soon. But people do dumb **** and take unnecessary risks all the time and get away with it until the day they don’t. Getting away with taking those unnecessary risks for a long time doesn’t mean they did the right thing taking those unnecessary risks.
It’s like a guy who has a giant gun collection in his house. He could have it there for every day for 10 years with no problem. Then on the 10th year and 1st day his kid gets ahold of one of the guns and mistakenly scatters his brains all over the house.
Or a guy might have a pet tiger that never hurt anyone for 10 years. Nicest tiger you’ve ever seen. Then one day the tiger eats his kids.
I’ve been in the risk assessment and negligence assessment business probably longer than you’ve been alive, and it makes me sick to see adults take risks that put their kids and other people in danger unnecessarily. There’s enough danger in the world without putting your and other lives at risk unnecessarily to fly around in some tin box especially on a super foggy day.
I’m sorry you lost a dude who meant so much to you. I think you’re a phenomenal young dude. Take this as a hard lesson on taking foolish risks.
Fair enough. I know nothing about this crash, possibly its was 100% pilot related or 100% weather related. Seems crazy to me in 2020 a plane/helicopter can just fly into a hill.
But my point, after 25 years of trusting professionals to handle you sh*t, a foggy helicopter ride is probably normal.
When it’s your time, it’s your time.Brother, I know you love Kobe, so I’m going to leave this alone soon. But people do dumb **** and take unnecessary risks all the time and get away with it until the day they don’t. Getting away with taking those unnecessary risks for a long time doesn’t mean they did the right thing taking those unnecessary risks.
It’s like a guy who has a giant gun collection in his house. He could have it there for every day for 10 years with no problem. Then on the 10th year and 1st day his kid gets ahold of one of the guns and mistakenly scatters his brains all over the house.
Or a guy might have a pet tiger that never hurt anyone for 10 years. Nicest tiger you’ve ever seen. Then one day the tiger eats his kids.
I’ve been in the risk assessment and negligence assessment business probably longer than you’ve been alive, and it makes me sick to see adults take risks that put their kids and other people in danger unnecessarily. There’s enough danger in the world without putting your and other lives at risk unnecessarily to fly around in some tin box especially on a super foggy day.
I’m sorry you lost a dude who meant so much to you. I think you’re a phenomenal young dude. Take this as a hard lesson on taking foolish risks.
Nah. Kobe was a very smart guy with tons of experience flying. He knew flying in that sort of fog was unnecessarily risky.Kobe could have just as easily, and perhaps with significantly greater odds, been killed while taking a limousine to the game. It’s not on the passengers to know if it’s too risky to fly. That’s on the pilot.