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Kobe Bryant’s Tragic Flight
- Stratoscope 6y ago> The direct route to Camarillo over the coast was awash in red, signifying that conditions were too crummy to fly. But if Zobayan stayed inland and east of downtown L.A., he could duck through a pass in the hills, cut across the San Fernando Valley, scoot over a low pass, and descend into Camarillo from the east. The conditions still wouldn’t be great, and the route would take longer, but he could handle it. I used to fly a lot. Not helicopters, mostly Cessna 150/172. There was more than one time that I tried a trick like this. Once it was power lines that I just barely missed when I was descending to Concord (CA) under a low overcast at night. I repeated that trick the next morning over the Altamont Pass when I noticed the red balls on the power lines ahead of us. I climbed over them and missed them by a good hundred feet. RIP Kobe and family and friends and crew.
- gigatexal 6y agoAs a life long Laker fan I miss him a lot. Every now and then a video on YouTube or something like this will make me sad that he’s gone. And I never met him in real life. And no he wasn’t perfect. There’s something irrational about my affection and connection to the man. RIP Kobe and to his little girl.