re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg

I just read this story myself and saw pictures of the crash site over an area that was still heavily covered in fog.

Now, I’m no aviation expert but if I was due to fly in a helicopter and I walked outside and saw fog like THAT I’d be like :”Uhhh, yeah. We’re gonna need to delay or cancel this flight.”

I assume the pilot assured Kobe and the others that it would be fine to fly and they took him at his word because hey, he’s the expert but the implication this could have been easily avoided makes it all the more heartbreaking.

Weather Channel has actually been doing extensive coverage of the crash. They’ve been saying that when the helicopter took off, conditions were significantly better. Something like a 1400 ft ceiling, but degraded rapidly. Possibly leaving the aircraft and pilot in a tough situation. Trying to find a path to proceed, or finding a path to go back.