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Kobe Bryant's helicopter crash due to pilot error

This is underlined by a government appraisal - ATTACHMENT

Just over a year: thirteen months later an important truth is emerging about the helicopter crash that cost the life of American basketball champion Kobe Bryant. It was January 26, 2020 and the sportsman, together with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people were on board a Sikorsky S-76B helicopter (Registration: N72EX). Aircraft was owned by the same sportsman and had taken off from...

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Los Angeles, Usa, 02/10/2021 10:38
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

AccidentsUSA: basketball champion Bryant dies, S-76B helicopter crashed

The discovery of the wreckage - VIDEO

NBA basketball champion Kobe Bryant died yesterday during a helicopter crash in California. The Sikorsky S-76B, registration N72EX, hit a hilly terrain in Calabasas in Los Angeles County, killing all nine... more

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