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Anyone ever experience that?
Lost a college buddy to adverse conditions back in the early 90's from a small aircraft accident. They turned around (trying to get back to Tracy, Ca) to avoid bad conditions traversing the Altamont pass and flew into the side of a hill. Haven't heard the term scud running since that accident.
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But considering his airspeed at the time of impact, he was definitely not slowing down and being cautious. After seeing this video I'm definitely convinced this was a case of Kobe running late after circling around burbank for 10 minutes and pressuring the pilot to "make it happen". Poor decisions were made to fly into the fog especially at such low elevations and high speeds and it resulted in death for all on board.
Flying approximately 170mph and doing a "u turn" with no visibility in mountainous terrain is not being cautious. Sounds like he coulda-shoulda slowed airspeed to approximately 65knots and performed a tighter turn and a steep climb.
All easier said than done when typing from a keyboard of course...
A football teammate of mine in HS was later in life a Gyrocopter pilot and salesman for Gyrocopters. He hit an overhead wire near his home while giving a test ride to another pilot. It crashed and neither survived. He had flown in that area for a long time and still made a fatal mistake.
@Black Diesel Bomber, I think tingo is the resident pilot on this board. Maybe he will see this post.
One more thing to add having flown quite a bit in small aircraft. I don't think people realize that you are not flying on your schedule, you are flying on the weather's schedule. Our scheduled departure times have been delayed several times, even to the next day because of weather. You just don't put yourself in that situation and if you do you are risking what happened to Kobe and his people.
He once had to dead stick a landing in a field in the Ozark mountains when he got bad fuel.and his plane shut off. Said that situation wasn't nearly as scary as coming into heavy cloud deck that wasn't forecast when he was flying my sister back to college in W. Virginia on a nice fall day that turned into IFR conditions and he had to try and turn back and hit a local FBO for the day until the fog lifted..
I remember seeing him playing live for the first time in 1996 as a 18 year old just out of high school.
I don't believe he started but there still was a lot of hype and anticipation to watch him play and you could just see that this kid had something special in him but I had no idea he would turn out to be one of the greatest players to ever play the game.
He had a love-hate relationship with the Phoenix Suns fans as he used to put a dagger in our hearts many times and he loved it. He would get booed loudly but that just seemed to light his fire and the Killer Instinct would take over.
But then there were also many games that seemed like they were Laker home games as a lot of LA people have moved here and are very Vocal fans and they would go crazy every time Kobe had the ball.
Such a shame as I remember seeing him in an interview a few years ago and could see the excitement in his eyes about his new film career and where that was taking him. And just like in typical Kobe fashion he reign supreme and got an Oscar.
This is all very sad for everybody, for his family and all the others who perished in this horrendous and tragic event......😭
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/vanessa-bryant-honors-…
The PA announcer then brought up Kobe and named all the victims of the accident along with a picture of Kobe and his daughter Gianna.
He then asked for 24 seconds of Silence.
Usually in moments like this you get some jack off who screams or yells something but this was not the case, not one peep from over 16,000 people.
You could hear a pin drop.
It was surreal and definitely put a lump in my throat and my eyes were misty....
After the game was over and we were walking to the car this was on the giant video screen overlooking downtown Phoenix.
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