Kobe Bryant dead?

Not footy, but massive sporting news if true

Copter crash

 

Been reported all over now and confirmed by sources within LAPD.

RIP Kobe

 

Such a big star in Basketball that you won't have to be a fan of the sport to know who he is.

 

Chuff me, not a Basketball fan but that's awful, R.I.P. big fella

 

Shocking.

One of the greatest sportsmen of all time.

 

Now being reported that his 13 year old daughter Gianna was with him, together with another player who was also a parent.

Life really is a bitch. RIP all the victims

 

Awful news, his 13 old daughter died also, devastating for the family.

Helicopters as a vehicle fill me dread, I hate the idea of how they operate, never look safe in my opinion, obviously the Leicester owner died in a similar crash based on what news has come out so far. Do away with helicopters in my opinion, unecessary

 

His daughter died with him which is the bigger tragedy. Koby had a life, cut way too short, but he had one. His daughter didn't get one.

 

Not sure your correct there. Just been sat in our local and none round our table knew who he was.

 

Sadly they are a rich persons convenience transport with many moving mechanical parts interdependent on one another that when they go wrong it’s usually catastrophic. Tragically the people you’ve mentioned would in all likelihood still be here had they not normalised this expensive, somewhat risky transportation extravagance into their day to day lives.

 

Id so most people under say 45 have heard of him.

I don't like basketball but without thinking I can name 5 basketball players. Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neil (probably spelt wrong).

 

Well there you go. The only one I know is Little Lemon

 

When helicopters fail they are flying bricks. You don't stand a chance.

 

That is a misconception, you can land a helicopter if the engine fails. As always though, including with fixed wing aircraft, sometimes the failure is catastrophic and nothing can be done to land it safely. RIP to all who died.

 

Fine for things like air sea rescue, Air ambulances, oil rig transfers etc. where they are the only option for fast response inaccessible locations, but as means of private transportation and for media channel news gatherers flying over populated cities. ...nah!!!

As a friend who flew them in the navy once told me, although they were trained to 'dead stick' land in emergency engine failure, anything else like a tail rotor fail was unrecoverable. In his words " They have all the glide properties of a grand piano"

 

In practise it looks like the weather conditions rather than the aircraft itself that were the major factor in the accident. The cops had grounded their fleet because of the fog.

 

Never even heard of him, RIP all the same

 

The Gazelles I was flying in the Army would fly straightish at 60 kts with a tail rotor failure but doing a run on landing with skids at that speed was a bit hairy..... fortunately only had to do it for practice and never for real.

 

Helicopters are used thousands of times daily, just because there has been a couple of high profile crashes over the past few years it doesn't make them unsafe. Perspective needed. I'm sure everyone believing they are drive cars every day!

 

Meadowlark Lemon and Curly Neal , Harlem Globetrotters finest