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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kobe built a park for underprivileged kids in Houston. It sounds heroic to me[/quote]

If you had 600 million dollars, how many parks would you build?[/quote]

There are a lot of people, with a lot of money, who do little to nothing for poor people.[/quote]

which is why they still have a lot of money...

from what I heard it was cloudy and the pilot essentially flew into the side of the mountain,  low clouds/fog[/quote]

Yes, and both the LAPD and LA County Sheriff had all of their choppers grounded. The fog was really bad and it was folly to try and fly in it. Very similar to the JFK Jr. story, who was only trained to fly under VFR, but not IFR. However the poor visibility required IFR in the JFK Jr. case. [/quote]

It's not similar because this pilot had more experience and could fly with instruments.[/quote]

Well, I'm sure the police pilots had experience and instrument training too, yet they chose to ground their fleet that morning. [/quote]

Not to be disrespectful - I also don't understand how this is compared to JFK. Yes they were using the same visual cue patterns to fly the helicopter/plane rather than instruments. But JFK Jr crashed into the ocean and honestly that seems more like a beginner's mistake than side-clipping a mountain in foggy terrain.[/quote]

The mistake in BOTH cases was taking the trip at all, when many factors involved pointed to it being a bad idea. Both trips should have been cancelled/delayed. [/quote]
+1. The post a few pages back who gave a detailed break down of all the small errors made along Kobe's trip amount to this. Pilot should have said you know what, it's too risky, you will have to drive to your BB game or we wait out the weather. At 9am on Sunday morning they could have driven or waited an hour or two. Gianna's game wasn't until noon. They wouldn't have had as much warm up time but so be it. People are just so bad at assessing risks. It's an awful tragedy that could have been prevented.[/quote]

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