Kobe Bryant Discussion: Mamba Out!

I will hazard a couple of guesses from what I have read. It did not have terrain warning system (why in the hell not, it had all the other bells and whistles ..... well except a black box and voice recorder) but tower control and their radar lost the craft and warned the pilot he was too low for them to track, and maybe even he might have seen terrain coming up on them since flying so low. But it's reported he climbed upward rapidly which would have put him back in the soup of the fog and clouds where visibility was non existent and I've read that it's possible for a pilot even as experienced as he was to lose orientation and in thinking possibly in those brief moments he maybe thought he was leveling off, while actually putting the copter into a fatal dive. The other thing I wondered was if the rapid pull upward somehow caused it to stall and drop. Ground observer said he heard the engine struggling like it was failing right before the crash even though he could not see through the fog. But .... there's 2 engines on these as well. All I got. Still sick and ruined over this.

 

Good read. Their first interaction with one another. Mentoring Kyrie. Working with Gigi. And an app they were working on

 

spatial disorientation is my guess

you quickly lose your sense of direction flying in the clouds like that. once he made that left turn in thick fog he likely became disoriented and panicked. also, based off that video it looks like the pilot switched to IFR shortly before the crash. switching from VFR to IFR in the air is itself is a recipe for disaster. assuming the pilot was already suffering from spatial disorientation, him switching from VFR to IFR made it 100x worse. the pilot could've declared an emergency but either chose not to or tried to and it wasn't picked up due to flying too low.



here's a video which explains spatial disorientation and how pilots can quickly lose their sense of direction

 

Long time lurker, first time poster.
Just wanted to say thank you Kobe for the memories.
Thank you for showing us how to be the best you can.
Thank you people of L.A. for honoring Kobe the right way.
Rest in Peace Mamba, and Mambacita.

 

Vanessa has changed her Instagram photo to a crop of this image. Maybe we'll see a Kobe and Gianna together statue in front of Staples. It would seem fitting and appropriate to me for what the world of Basketball and the World lost. We could see that statue and dream our wildest rational dreams about the things they would have accomplished in their futures to come .... and how could you overstate what was possible?




https://www.yahoo.com/news/vanessa-bryant-honors-kobe-gianna-instagram-222619620.html

Adding to my statement above about there was no way you could overstate was what was possible in Kobe's future and in Gianna's future .... this long interview with Phil Handy is pure gold.

https://theundefeated.com/features/phil-handy-working-out-with-kobe-and-gianna/

The essence of who Kobe was and how serious he was about his work and he only cared about helping people who were as serious as he was about the game.

But then Phil mentions the App "Mamba Mentality" they were working on right now in real time. We can only imagine how huge and how helpful to how many millions of people in the future that "alone" was going to be.

And then .... he talks about Kobe's instructions on how he wanted Gianna and her other teammates coached when he brought Phil in to work with them, because they were "serious", and they were "hoopers". Handy said they were that for sure. I ache for the basketball career of Gigi Bryant that we will never see. She would have been amazing. And then what did her own post career ambitions hold in store for her?

 

Welcome. Love your avatar photo!

 

My guesstimates are similar to yours based on the info at hand. What a bizarre situation.

 

"Old" but good. Kid really was special. No doubt in my mind, that she would be a WNBA star.

 

I’m uhh... at a loss for words. I still can’t believe it. I’m numb. It’s really too much to be honest. I still think it’s a dream and that I’ll wake up and we find out they never even left home. It’s one of the saddest moments ever in my life. To lose kids, parents, spouses, etc all at once and to have so many families in such great pain now. I just can’t. Maybe I’ll be able to discuss all the details and whatnot someday, but it just feels like that day won’t be here for a long time. I mean we have all dealt with death in our personal lives, some tragic and unexpected, others known but still... Rest In Peace to all the victims of the crash. Kobe and GiGi. You will be missed and we love you both so much!

 

Not seeing Gigi Bryant continue to play the game of basketball is a tragedy all until itself.

 

Shaq, what an incredible gesture.

 

La Kings game to night and Kopitar ,Dustin Brown and some other guys wears Kobe 24and 8 jerseys
Can't watch any NBA games now anyways

 

Looks like DJ Quik wants to go see Ari Shaffir and chin check him for celebrating Kobe's death.