Via The Daily Beast:
The National Transportation Safety Board said the helicopter Kobe Bryant was flying in the day he died crashed just 20 to 30 feet from the top of the mountain it crashed on. In a Tuesday press conference, officials described the area around the “high energy impact crash” site as a “ravine with undulated terrain.”
According to NTSB’s Jennifer Homendy, the main impact of the crash was 1,085 feet up and the the height of the mountain the helicopter crashed on was 20 to 30 feet away. However, Homendy also said there were other hills close by as the pilot was trying to “climb out of the cloud layer at the time” of the crash. The time from the helicopter’s descent to impact was “about a minute,” she said.
#NEW: @NTSB says the helicopter carrying #KobeBryant, his daughter and 7 others BARELY missed clearing the mountain by just 20-30 feet.
The descent rate was over 2000 feet per minute making it a high energy impact crash. @ABC7
— Veronica Miracle (@ABC7Veronica) January 29, 2020
The fact that the helicopter fell for almost a minute is a very troubling fact. A sad event somehow got a little sadder.
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