Kobe Bryant and daughter killed in helicopter crash

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Originally Posted by notorious

That video is nothing.

Shoot an approach when you have mountainous terrain surrounding you and the ceiling is at minimums.

That will pucker your ass.

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Yeah sometimes you actually earn your flight pay.

Like I said earlier, I been involved in many “long green table” aviation mishap boards from both sides of the table. I’ve buried far too many Marines and friends to have much sympathy left for poor judgement.


In my old type of flying, it’s dangerous enough without poor head work.


I’ have done stupid as well. I’m not aware of stupid aviation immunity. While my stupider aviation stuff was in my youth, and always single pilot. I think how stupid and lucky then I was.

In those or similar SOCAL conditions, below mins, to EL TORO, Tustin, Pendleton, or Miramar, I As a primary F/W guy but single piloting a Cobra attack Helo would do the below under some misguided view that I had to get there:

I would cross over on the Ocn Tacan till feet wet, cancel my IFR, and start an IMC instrument let down till 100 feet using the radar altimeter and visually picking up the waves and sneaking in, then hitting the VFR airfield reporting points and asking for a Special V entry. Seems to be this guys plan minus the IFR flight plan/rules.

So I know helo stupid as well. I just feel for Koby and the passengers not at the controls.

You earlier mentioned pressures to get the job done in poor conditions. I agree BUT there’s 1 aircraft commander. His call. His actions. Likely killed others.