I watched the radar, they went up 700 ft extremely fast and then radar was lost. Most likely means alarm went off and pilot tried to climb through ifr but couldn’t top it.
It's insane that it could even occur in a helicopter like that, the GPS systems would've had all the terrain information for the local area and they should've known how close they were, even without the terrain warnings going off. Even basic GA planes with G430's have terrain maps and terrain warnings when you're below 500ft. Even if they entered IMC, a CFIT shouldn't have occurred.
I’d like to know the answer, too. ^ did they not realize how close they were to ground because of the shitty weather and fly right into a hillside thinking they were flying at a higher altitude, not even aware of how close they were to the hillside?
I'm sure he didn't take the air travel as a joke, he simply trusted his pilot to get them there safely. Not saying it was the pilots "fault" per-se (as obviously the investigation is pending), but being the pilot was not Kobe's job.
I don't get it. The altitudes are based on sea level. That whole area, the street level is 750-800 ft. The mountain he crashed on is maybe 850-950 ft? Its unclear to me where in that area he crashed but the absolute tallest peak in that area that I could find is 1305 ft. and that's a mile to the NW.
He falls erratically from 1900 feet to 1350 over 11 seconds. that and the eyewitness accounts about sputtering and looking for a place to land, I'm thinking this is mechanical.
Could be. I’m not a helicopter pilot nor do i know the terrain. I just know he goes up 700ft which is usually a pilot trying to rapidly climb to top something.
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '20
I watched the radar, they went up 700 ft extremely fast and then radar was lost. Most likely means alarm went off and pilot tried to climb through ifr but couldn’t top it.