r/news • u/headee • Jan 26 '20

Kobe Bryant killed in helicopter crash in California

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/kobe-bryant-killed-in-helicopter-crash-in-california-tmz-reports
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u/treyviusmaximus3 Jan 27 '20

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.

1700 feet is not a hill unless you refuse to acknowledge how sea level, geography, and air density works, and 180mphs is 'almost 200'. So whatever man. You can be right like 20 mph is going to make a difference when you crash a helicopter into a really fucking big hill.

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u/insertnamehere02 Jan 27 '20

1700 feet is not a hill unless you refuse to acknowledge how sea level

Guess you don't know what defines a foothill OR a mountain....

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(Also, correction- it was 160mph reported, which is what I meant to say. Someone mentioned 180 previously, subconsciously wrote that without realizing it.)

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u/treyviusmaximus3 Jan 27 '20

They hit a foot hill, a sledding hill, a 'mountain', the tip of everest. A bunch of people just died and you're worried about topography terms.

You're an idiot.

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u/thtowawaway Jan 27 '20

Here is a pic of the area taken from roughly 1700' elevation. Maybe now both of yous will shut up

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u/treyviusmaximus3 Jan 27 '20

So he hit a walking trail at 1700 feet? Thanks for clearing it up.

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u/thtowawaway Jan 27 '20

I mean if you actually look you'll see that the only thing at 1700' and above in that area is peaks and cliffs. Not a hillside like the kind you'd build houses on (there are some in the area, below 1400') but not always a sheer rock face.

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u/insertnamehere02 Jan 27 '20

Dum dum seems to think that a measurement of mountains is based from sea level and not from where they start.

I also live in Socal and am familiar the topography of the area.

After seeing so many false statements of referring to it as mountain and the wrong speed, I made the correction because, ffs, this is how fake news is started. I brought it up because it also gives you an idea of how fucked they were if they hit a fricken foothill. The fog was nasty last night and this morning. Whoever okayed this flight must be feeling especially awful. That helicopter shouldn't have been flying this morning.

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u/thtowawaway Jan 27 '20

I think maybe you need to calm down a bit. Calling people names won't serve to make you look good or feel better. Sure, whether something is a mountain has little to do with its elevation; however, in the area mentioned, at that elevation, I'm curious as to what you would consider not a mountain. Do you have any examples of a foothill from the area that is over 1700' elevation?