RE: Kobe Bryant dead from Helicopter crash
February 9, 2020 at 8:49 am
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2020 at 8:50 am by Prime Time.)
(January 26, 2020 at 11:18 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I don't understand why this type of accident still happens. GPS can give you a 3-D representation of where you are superimposed over a 3-D topographical map. An aircraft like an S-76 is worth > $10 million U.S. The cost of such a system is absolutely trivial compared to the cost of the aircraft - to say nothing of human operators and cargo.
Shit is going to happen outside of our ability to control but controlled flight into terrain should no longer be happening. GPS should have eliminated this type of accident more than a decade ago.
It shouldn't have. Conditions were not VFR which most helicopters need in order to fly. The pilot decided to give it a try anyways. I'm a PPL. And I would almost NEVER fly under IFR conditions. Unless I absolutely have to. Not trying to blame the pilot, but this could have been easily prevented.
People bringing up Kobe's rape allegations..just remember she REFUSED to testify.
The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in their control and not the other way around.
Just because she's in a wheel chair doesn't mean she can't be hot
Just because she's in a wheel chair doesn't mean she can't be hot