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The Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash: Aviation Wrestles With Decades-Old Problem
A familiar problem in the aviation industry — and something it's wrestled with for decades: getting pilots to turn around or divert when the path ahead starts to look bad. (www.npr.org) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I don't even like driving through heavy fog, so I can imagine what the pilot was going through. Me, I would have told Kobe to call an Uber or Lyft, because we're going to the nearest airport where VFR was still available.
Why wasn’t this guy instrument rated flying a highly advanced rotorcraft. Pure and simple spatial disorientation.
He WAS instrument rated, but obviously not proficient and very likely not current. Another shining example of “just because you can to do something, doesn’t mean you should.
wasn't flying IFR ...was "special VFR" big difference
Many aviation accidents don't happen all at once but are a sequence of incrementally bad decisions resulting in tragedy. Terrain sensor wouldn't have helped with spatial disorientation. The only reason why politicians are involved is that the crash involved a popular and famous person.
Reminds me of a common aviation saying I heard years ago."There are old pilots and bold pilots but no old and bold pilots."