• NBA. A year without Kobe Bryant: "His death was a trauma for the players"

Investigators in the accident that killed Kobe Bryant and eight other people claimed that the helicopter pilot was disoriented by the fog and maintained that he did not follow the rules when flying through thick clouds, according to US media.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) holds a hearing to announce its findings on the accident that occurred on January 26, 2020 in Calabasas (California, USA) in which one of the greatest legends of the NBA history, 41, and also his daughter Gigi, 13.

The NTSB explained that pilot

Ara Zobayan

, who also died in the accident, became disoriented while flying through fog that day in a mountainous area west of Los Angeles.

The authorities assured that Zobayan was thus against the norms of his training, since when flying between thick clouds and with limited visibility a pilot may think that he is going up when in fact he is losing altitude.

That was what happened in this accident, according to the NTSB, which recalled that the pilot had signaled to air control, shortly before crashing, that he was gaining altitude to overcome the clouds despite the fact that he was actually descending.

The complaints of the widow

The helicopter had taken off in the morning from Orange County, southeast of Los Angeles, and was heading for Ventura County, located west of the Californian city, when it finally crashed around 9:45 a.m. in a mountainous area of ​​the city of Calabasas.

The player's widow,

Vanessa Bryant

, in a complaint accused the helicopter company and the pilot of negligence in her husband's death.

He has also continued to fight another lawsuit in court, this time against the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office after news broke that some officers took photos of the accident with their personal mobiles and then shared them illegally.

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