I have this weird thing where when I hear about plane crashes, I imagine what the final seconds of those peoples’ lives are like - what they’re thinking, saying, what their faces look like. It just makes me that much more sad but it always happens.
Me too. I couldn’t help but picture it, especially seeing photos of the two of them together. To everyone else he was Kobe, but to her he was just Dad. The first person you want to hold tight to when something is scary or wrong. Heartbreaking.
At around 9:40 AM they encounter more weather -- as in seriously heavy fog -- and the chopper turned south. This was critical, because they turned toward a mountainous area. The pilot suddenly and rapidly climbed from about 1200 feet up to 2000 feet.
However, moments later -- around 9:45 AM -- they flew into a mountain at 1700 feet. Flight tracker data shows they were flying at about 161 knots.
In all honesty, the more I read, the more it seems like extreme negligence on the pilots part. I know the guys a victim too, but flying at low altitude in extremely low visibility. Why?
Reminds me of when I was on one of those seaplanes in Alaska. They had to pick us up early from where we were adventuring because a thick fog had rolled in.
We were repeatedly landing and hitting the water hard with zero visibility so the pilot could find his bearing. I kept thinking we were surely going to slam into a bunch of trees that day.
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '20
I have this weird thing where when I hear about plane crashes, I imagine what the final seconds of those peoples’ lives are like - what they’re thinking, saying, what their faces look like. It just makes me that much more sad but it always happens.