{"id":31518,"date":"2021-02-09T10:51:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T18:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31518"},"modified":"2021-02-09T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T18:51:37","slug":"kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-probe-by-ntsb-found-no-evidence-bryant-placed-pressure-on-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31518","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant helicopter crash probe by NTSB found no evidence Bryant \u2018placed pressure\u2019 on pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Transportation Safety Board has determined<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>that the probable cause of the crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and six other passengers last year was the pilot\u2019s decision to continue flight under adverse weather conditions. The result, they said, was the pilot\u2019s \u201cspatial disorientation\u201d and loss of control.<\/p>\n<p>Also contributing to the accident, the board said Tuesday, was the pilot\u2019s likely \u201cself-induced pressure\u201d to please a high-profile client and a bias toward continuing with the established plan. It also cited the helicopter operator\u2019s inadequate review of its safety management processes.<\/p>\n<p>NTSB investigators said at Tuesday\u2019s hearing that had become spatially disoriented when he flew into thick clouds.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot, Ara Zobayan, was prohibited by federal regulations from penetrating the clouds, but he did so anyway. He told air traffic controllers that he was about to rise above the clouds, but instead he crashed into the hillside below. Zobayan was also killed in the crash on Jan. 26, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The board discussed the role that \u201cself-induced pressure\u201d could have played in the crash. There was no evidence, said NTSB investigator Dujuan Sevillian, that the client, helicopter operator Island Express or the air charter broker placed pressure on pilot. Nonetheless, the pilot may have put pressure on himself to fly an important client.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant was 41 at the time of the crash, and his daughter was 13. Also killed were Gianna\u2019s teammates and friends of the Bryants.<\/p>\n<p>The board\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/02\/07\/803924851\/ntsb-kobe-bryant-helicopter-engine-did-not-fail-before-crash\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\">said<\/a>\u00a0last February that there was no evidence of engine failure. The helicopter did not have a \u201cblack box\u201d flight recording system.<\/p>\n<p>The board found that the air traffic controller\u2019s failure to report the loss of radar contact did not contribute to the accident or affect its survivability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Transportation Safety Board has&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31519,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31518\/revisions\/31519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}