Kobe Bryant is Gone

[Averageman]

I just read 9 on board when it went down.
What a tragedy, I can't imagine what it would by like in those last fleeting moments as a parent to be helpless to save your kid.

[Boba Fett v2]

I flew helicopters for 18 years of my 22 years in the Army. Just under 8000 hours in total with two primary air frames. I only had one crash and it was when I was landing and took small arms fire into the tail boom, causing tail rotor transmission failure. Spun and dropped about 70 feet, landing on the skids and breaking off the rotors.

Too many factors in civilian rotor crashes, but a lot of the time it is maintenance, followed by weather and that is combined with pilot error.

Kiowa scout pilot. 3rd Cav?

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[WillBrink]

I flew helicopters for 18 years of my 22 years in the Army. Just under 8000 hours in total with two primary air frames. I only had one crash and it was when I was landing and took small arms fire into the tail boom, causing tail rotor transmission failure. Spun and dropped about 70 feet, landing on the skids and breaking off the rotors.

Too many factors in civilian rotor crashes, but a lot of the time it is maintenance, followed by weather and that is combined with pilot error.

Cool trivia, guy who is a tour/answer guy at the UDT-SEAL Museum was one of the engineers who designed and tested the Blackhawk. The museum has a bird that was flown during the Jessica Buchanan rescue op and others as well others via 160th SOAR. One of the gents at the museum was on that op and the Director on that bird in Mogadishu.

"On January 25, 2012, a team of United States Navy SEALs raided a compound 12 miles north of the Somali town of Adow, killing nine Somali pirates and freeing their hostages, U.S. citizen Jessica Buchanan and Danish citizen Poul Hagen Thisted. This Black Hawk flew Jessica & Poul out to safety!"

Our SME on all things Blackhawk told me of the recs and the testing for the bird, and it was designed and tested to take an impressive amount of damage and still fly or at least land in one piece. That one was shot down 3 times! 2 of which are still classified, but each time, it got it's people home in one piece. Perhaps you and that bird crossed paths? Here's all the intel on the bird:

https://www.navysealmuseum.org/home-...awk-helicopter

[OH58D]

Kiowa scout pilot. 3rd Cav?

OH-6, MH-6, AH-6 (1983-1994)

OH-58D (1994-1999) This period included 2/17 CAV

[scooter22]

Didn't he cheat on his wife, and rape someone?

[BoringGuy45]

Didn't he cheat on his wife, and rape someone?

He did cheat in 2003, but from what we know, the rape allegation was bogus. The sex was consensual, the woman also admitted to banging 3 or more guys in addition to Kobe within a two day period, and was also batshit crazy. It was likely an attempted money grab, and the woman refused to testify at the trial so the case was dropped. To anyone's knowledge, that was his one misstep in his marriage. Not to excuse cheating, but it seems like he repented and moved forward.

[Adrenaline_6]

Last I heard it was reported that the morning was foggy.

[Rogue556]

I just read 9 on board when it went down.
What a tragedy, I can't imagine what it would by like in those last fleeting moments as a parent to be helpless to save your kid.

This was my feeling as well.

I was sitting on the couch cuddled up with my two daughters (2 and 4 years old) when my wife told me what happened. The gut wrenching feeling just thinking about it nearly makes me sick. How terrible it must be for the family. As a father, failure to protect my children/spouse has always been my worst fear..




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[Averageman]

Just saw a video of the crash on YouTube.
It looks like something went wrong as the banked right to come in to land. It would appear to a novice like myself that the pilot tried to autorotate and the whole thing flopped on its left side and fell like a stone.

[mack7.62]

Some of the videos supposed to be of his helicopter going down are not of his crash, background is a rock walled canyon.