Bryant often took helicopters to beat Los Angeles traffic and the group boarded his usual chartered chopper with his usual pilot at the controls. It was traveling forward at about 152 miles per hour just before the crash, according to a radar report by FlightAware. Neither fact is unusual, but the presence of both might have helped avert the crash or provide information about it. “You have competing things going on at the same time,” Stephen LaDochy, a climatology professor at Cal State L.A., told the Times. AD“Psychologically, that’s the hardest part,” Kurt Deetz, a former Island Express pilot, told the Times.

Source: Washington Post January 29, 2020 15:41 UTC