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The Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash: Aviation Wrestles With Decades-Old Problem
A familiar problem in the aviation industry — and something it's wrestled with for decades: getting pilots to turn around or divert when the path ahead starts to look bad. (www.npr.org) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I don't even like driving through heavy fog, so I can imagine what the pilot was going through. Me, I would have told Kobe to call an Uber or Lyft, because we're going to the nearest airport where VFR was still available.
Why wasn’t this guy instrument rated flying a highly advanced rotorcraft. Pure and simple spatial disorientation.
He WAS instrument rated, but obviously not proficient and very likely not current. Another shining example of “just because you can to do something, doesn’t mean you should.
wasn't flying IFR ...was "special VFR" big difference
Many aviation accidents don't happen all at once but are a sequence of incrementally bad decisions resulting in tragedy. Terrain sensor wouldn't have helped with spatial disorientation. The only reason why politicians are involved is that the crash involved a popular and famous person.
Reminds me of a common aviation saying I heard years ago."There are old pilots and bold pilots but no old and bold pilots."
think he requested a "Special VFR" clearance and waited for it to be granted giving him the freedom to find his way to landing on his own... as a controller rarely had one requested and usually was to climb thru fog on departure...had to clear everyone else out of the way in order to grant clearance and then wait for plot to report clear of fog before I could allow ops to resume... Tower control So Lake Tahoe.. crash every 2 weeks during summer Sunday PMs... density alt 9500 ft, wind 15-25 K with downdrafts and turn over last 1/3 of runway
...everyone had to get home after the weekend..
...everyone had to get home after the weekend..