Kobe Bryant killed in helicopter crash

Kobe Bryant died in a helicoper crash in Calabasas Sunday morning ... TMZ Sports has confirmed.

Kobe was traveling with at least 3 other people in his private helicopter when it went down. A fire broke out. Emergency personnel responded, but nobody on board survived. 5 people are confirmed dead. We're told Vanessa Bryant was not among those on board.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

Kobe Bryant & Daughter Die in Helicopter Crash, 3 Bodies Recovered

Kobe Bryant has died. His daughter was also on board and passed away.

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[TowinKarz]

There is a phenomenon in aviation known as the "Graveyard Spiral" - as the name suggests, it's where a pilot enters into a situation where they lose visual reference with the horizon (such as fog or darkness) and are not sufficiently trained on how to use their instruments to maintain level flight. Inevitably, through a bit of crosswind or unnoticed pressure one way or the other on the stick, they enter into a shallow banking turn that the human sense of balance can't detect.

The pilot "feels" like they're flying level, but they're actually turning in a circle.

If you don't look at the artificial horizon, or don't know how to interpret it, you won't notice this.

As the turn continues, you'll start to lose altitude. Since every pilot can read an altimeter, this will be noticed. And here's where the easy and fatal mistake that gives the condition it's name occurs:

The natural response to losing altitude is pull back on the stick, point the craft up.

But since you're actually in a turn, pulling back will only tighten the turn into a spiral and speed up the loss of altitude. Like water circling the drain. You'll feel yourself pick up speed... but keep falling... causing a feedback loop where you pull back harder to "Fix" the problem, but that action alone only increases the spiraling more until you hit a hillside or go hard-over into an unrecoverable nosedive into the ground. Many a pilot has crashed this way, and their last moments of life are those seconds of terror and realization when they punch out of the cloud cover and see the ground inexplicably coming at them, with no idea how it could've happened... nothing felt wrong only a minute ago....

Seems like the same thing happened here, he thought he was pulling up.... while he was actually diving towards the ground.

 

[MrJokerRager]

There is a phenomenon in aviation known as the "Graveyard Spiral" - as the name suggests, it's where a pilot enters into a situation where they lose visual reference with the horizon (such as fog or darkness) and are not sufficiently trained on how to use their instruments to maintain level flight. Inevitably, through a bit of crosswind or unnoticed pressure one way or the other on the stick, they enter into a shallow banking turn that the human sense of balance can't detect.

The pilot "feels" like they're flying level, but they're actually turning in a circle.

If you don't look at the artificial horizon, or don't know how to interpret it, you won't notice this.

As the turn continues, you'll start to lose altitude. Since every pilot can read an altimeter, this will be noticed. And here's where the easy and fatal mistake that gives the condition it's name occurs:

The natural response to losing altitude is pull back on the stick, point the craft up.

But since you're actually in a turn, pulling back will only tighten the turn into a spiral and speed up the loss of altitude. Like water circling the drain. You'll feel yourself pick up speed... but keep falling... causing a feedback loop where you pull back harder to "Fix" the problem, but that action alone only increases the spiraling more until you hit a hillside or go hard-over into an unrecoverable nosedive into the ground. Many a pilot has crashed this way, and their last moments of life are those seconds of terror and realization when they punch out of the cloud cover and see the ground inexplicably coming at them, with no idea how it could've happened... nothing felt wrong only a minute ago....

Seems like the same thing happened here, he thought he was pulling up.... while he was actually diving towards the ground.

How does a pilot break out of that? Pull the stick down to the front or level the plane looking at the instrument panel and pull up.

 

[TowinKarz]

How does a pilot break out of that? Pull the stick down to the front or level the plane looking at the instrument panel and pull up.

The only way out is to level your wings before you pass the point of no return, and the only way to do that is trust the instruments and not what it feels like you're doing.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

Kobe died because helicopters are racist. Helicopters are known to post on Stormfront and turn off their teenage kids rap music.