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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2020 20:52:01 GMT
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Post by achilles on Jan 26, 2020 20:55:22 GMT
I don't know who exactly was the GOAT in the NBA, but he's got a very strong case. RIP to him and the other victims. Sad and shocking.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2020 20:57:07 GMT
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Post by sdsichero on Jan 26, 2020 21:11:40 GMT
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Post by achilles on Jan 26, 2020 22:42:40 GMT
The death toll in the crash is now 9. Bryant and his daughter were among the dead, evidently. It seems to have been a trip to his basketball camp for practice. The conditions were so foggy, and it's in the hills, so it's perhaps not to hard to understand.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2020 23:25:42 GMT
The death toll in the crash is now 9. Bryant and his daughter were among the dead, evidently. It seems to have been a trip to his basketball camp for practice. The conditions were so foggy, and it's in the hills, so it's perhaps not to hard to understand. Seems there were at least a couple of kids among the dead. Just a tragic story.
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Post by achilles on Jan 26, 2020 23:35:10 GMT
The death toll in the crash is now 9. Bryant and his daughter were among the dead, evidently. It seems to have been a trip to his basketball camp for practice. The conditions were so foggy, and it's in the hills, so it's perhaps not to hard to understand. Seems there were at least a couple of kids among the dead. Just a tragic story. Yeah, and a local baseball coach was also killed. And his wife, and his daughter.
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Post by achilles on Jan 27, 2020 12:18:02 GMT
I was watching the coverage yesterday, and was struck by how thick the fog was, and evidently it was so thick that LAPD and Sheriff's Department both grounded their own choppers. I'm thinking the pilot should have refused to fly, and Kobe should have arranged other transport by car. Sadly, hindsight is as they say, 20-20.
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Post by achilles on Jan 27, 2020 13:32:30 GMT
There were a number of nice tributes to Bryant, many of the buildings in downtown Los Angeles were lit up in purple and gold, the Lakers' colors in honor of him. Quite a few games in the NBA opened with both teams taking shot clock violations in honor of him, (the 24 second thing in honor of one of his two NBA numbers, 24). He was huge in Italy, where he lived for years as a kid, and evidently spoke Italian to the extent that he used local slang like...a local. The Philippines evidently loved him as well.
And of course outside the Staples Center, the house that Kobe built, there is a huge amount of stuff, flowers, notes and the like, (basketball shoes too), and at the Mamba Center, his basketball institute as well.
They left from John Wayne, (the OC airport that Harrison Ford had his...er...troubles at a few years ago), near his home in Newport Beach, to fly to the institute, (yes, you can drive there, but it's a terrible drive with some of the worst traffic in the US), in Los Angeles County, crashing at high speed into a hill in Calabasas in the dense fog. The wreckage is spread over 100 yards. From the scene, I would suspect everyone on board died instantly. There appear to have been a number of young teen girls on board, friends of his daughters from accounts. Evidently he was a friend of the local community college baseball coach, and appeared as a surprise once to give a motivational speech to the team. Sounds like he was a nice guy personally.
I was wondering about that. Yes, he apparently was named after Kobe beef; his father evidently REALLY liking it. And he and the city of Kobe hooked up in 2001, with him as their goodwill ambassador. The city and the beef association are also mourning his loss.
The other victims have been identified how on my local news. A Newport beach girl's basketball coach, a woman who appeared in her 40s. Some other little girls as well, all very tragic.
Last contact with a control tower was that tower informing the pilot that he was too low and they were having trouble keeping him on radar. I guess they were right, he was too low.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2020 22:20:21 GMT
One nice thing to come out of this was for just a moment or two, we all seemed to remember what is really important, and stopped concentrating on the general pettiness and mean-spiritedness of the age.
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Post by achilles on Jan 27, 2020 23:21:33 GMT
One nice thing to come out of this was for just a moment or two, we all seemed to remember what is really important, and stopped concentrating on the general pettiness and mean-spiritedness of the age. Well, except for that MSNBC reporter with her Los Angeles....I will not repeat the rest of it. Or the one from another agency who felt obligated to point out all of Bryant's flaws in a series of tweets that earned her a vacation from her company. But yes, the sudden, totally unexpected death of a beloved celebrity does tend to focus the mind and persuade that maybe all those troubles you're having could indeed be worse. Guy BTW evidently was a shrewd businessman. With way too many unpublicized charity sorts of things to mention.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 2:17:50 GMT
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Post by achilles on Jan 30, 2020 11:08:47 GMT
Orange Coast College hosted their first baseball game since the crash, which also killed the head baseball coach for the last 28 years and his wife and daughter, with all the OCC players and most of the crowd wearing his number 14 jersey. Nice tribute.
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Post by achilles on Jan 31, 2020 13:08:05 GMT
Uh oh, the pilot did NOT have the legal authority to fly in those conditions; the company was limited by the FAA to visual flight rules. And of course the chopper didn't have that terrain avoidance warning system that might have saved them. As it was, they missed clearing that hill by only about 20 to 30 feet.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2020 15:51:31 GMT
Uh oh, the pilot did NOT have the legal authority to fly in those conditions; the company was limited by the FAA to visual flight rules. And of course the chopper didn't have that terrain avoidance warning system that might have saved them. As it was, they missed clearing that hill by only about 20 to 30 feet. I was wondering about that the other day. It would be terrible to discover that Kobe's tendency to try to push forward regardless of circumstance ended up putting him and everyone else with him on the helicopter.
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