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pinky0926 posted...

Was there ever a decisive verdict about what happened in that case?

I mean I read that the pilot was pressured to make the flight, but damn even if Kobe Bryant demands you fly him to a location you'd think 20 years of flight experience would trump whatever a celebrity had to say about it.

Basically it was a foggy morning, it was unclear if the pilot was adequately briefed on the situation, they were near the destination, but flying through the fog disoriened the pilot, and he couldn't see where they were going or distinguish the heading of the copter just by sight, which should have been rising instead of descending. He was even talking a little to air traffic control with no distress in his voice moments before the crash, so there wasn't any sort of mechanical failure that he may have noticed that would lead to the crash. Why he didn't heed the instrumentation indicating that he was going down is odd. Chances are he was also getting lightheaded due to the flight maneuvers he had to take and thus he wasn't thinking clearly and his reactions were stunted, thus he couldn't heed air traffic controls warnings and after that it was too late to avoid the crash.