Kobe Bryant, investigators: “The helicopter was about 9 meters from passing over the top of the hill when it crashed”

Jennifer Homendy the NTSB explained that, according to preliminary information, the helicopter went down quickly and should not have disintegrated before impacting the hill: “The descent speed was more than 2,000 feet per minute, so we know it was an accident with energy impact high”. It is, he added quoted by CNN, of a “rather descent steep to high speed, therefore it would not be one normal speed landing “.

The accident, always according to what reported by the NTSB and reported by CNN, it happened about 1,085 feet above sea level, at a distance between 20 and 30 feet from the top of the hill. That is, about 9 meters. The NTSB will publish its preliminary report on the incident in 10 days, but specifies that “it will contain neither results nor our analyzes”, let alone “safety recommendations or probable causes, but will provide some information. ” It is “more than we have now, but only facts”.

The independent investigation agency of the United States government has published a video shot with a social media through its social media channels drone on the site of the tragedy that took place on the hills of Calabasas, in California. The helicopter debris is scattered hundreds of meters. They have been recovered engine parts and also several personal items, including a Tablet it’s a mobile phone. NTSB agents have made it known that the helicopter it was not equipped with the system that warns the pilot when it is too close to the ground and it was also without the black box that for that type of aircraft, however, it is not mandatory. The ground clearance system, explained the NTSB, had been recommended on a mandatory basis after an accident in Texas in 2004 in which 10 people died. But the Federal Aviation Administration does not have never implemented the recommendation.

All bodies of the helicopter crash in which he died Kobe Bryant have been recovered and among these the star of the gods has also been officially identified Lakers. The recognition was possible thanks to the study of Fingerprints. With him, confirmed the presence of John Altobelli, 56, Sarah Chester, 45, and the pilot, Ara Zobayan, 50. The department has not yet formally identified five other victims, but relatives and acquaintances have reported that Bryant’s thirteen-year-old daughter was also on board, Gianna, the thirteen year old daughter of Sarah Chester, Payton, Altobelli’s wife, Keri, and daughter, Alyssa, Besides Christina Mauser, a female basketball coach in an elementary school in Southern California.

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