There is news in the case of the crash of the helicopter carrying, among others, Kobe Bryant and his daughter, who crashed Sunday near Los Angeles. Indeed, while the investigation by the NTSB, the American equivalent of the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA), the New York Times has just published the testimony of Kurt Deetz, former pilot and head of safety of Island Express, the company that managed the flight of the former NBA star.
According to the latter, the company was only authorized to fly under "standard visual flight rules", which means that pilots cannot take off if and only if they manage to see outside the aircraft. cockpit. However, on the day of the tragedy, the visibility and weather conditions were such that even the LA police had decided to leave their devices on the ground.
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- 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) January 29, 2020The pilot Ara Zobayan, however, had a license to fly according to "special visual flight rules" and had obtained authorization from air traffic control if we are to believe the exchanges between it and the control tower. The results of the NTSB survey should shed more light on this.
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