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originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: KKLOCO
What drone footage are you referring to? Can you provide a link?
"He and Vanessa had a deal that they would never fly on a helicopter together," a source told People magazine. The source added that Bryant would ride in helicopters only if they were piloted by Ara Zobayan, who was the pilot in Sunday's crash and was also killed.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
Here is some new audio released this morning from doorbell cams in the area. There are two video clips with audio.
If you listen carefully it sounds like the helicopter hits something right before it seems to make a sharp turn (or possible sharp climb) (you hear the rotors really whomping the air. About 16-17 seconds later you hear the crash in the distance. The same sound occurs in both clips at the same duration before the final impact. Sounds to me like they may have hit something (a tree maybe?) and then climbed or turned sharply.
Twitter feed with video clips
Take a listen and see what you think. You can definitely hear the helicopter taking some sort of evasive action.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
Hard for me to imagine IMC in a helo, and being disoriented. Must be scarey as hell!!!
originally posted by: markymint
But in a heli, a pitch up is nothing without acceleration, isn't it? Meaning, you can pitch up, but you're not going to move upwards without also increasing thrust. And that action would definitely be heard on the audio.
Not a heli, but if we make a bit of a comparison to the Yorba Linda crash audio, you can hear the sound trail off several times (as heard in the Kobe audio just before impact) and that seems to be "regular" flight. Abnormal part of the flight is clearly audible.
My point being, any significant change ie a hard pitch up or down, would likely be noticable in the audio, but it isn't. Regular Doppler effect, not much beyond that.
Really, to me, it seems like the pilot just misjudged the altitude, catastrophically. Finds the target heading, decides to hit the gas but fails to ascend to a safe altitude. Just musing.