Helikopter - Kobe Bryant ulykken - AIN / Curt Lewis

 

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February 26, 2021

AINsight: Just Land On February 9, the NTSB held a public meeting on the crash of a Sikorsky S-76B that killed the pilot and eight occupants. In a scenario that has been played out many times before, this flight included scud running, inadvertent flight into IMC, spatial disorientation, loss of control, and a tragic loss of life. The obvious question here, as the late Matt Zuccaro said many times before, why don’t they just “land the damn helicopter?” Pilots need to take advantage of the most unique and valuable characteristics of vertical flight and just “land and live” rather than continually flying into bad weather. As demonstrated in this crash investigation, there were several opportunities to “break the chain” of events that led to tragedy. To be fair—it is not all on the pilot. The operator lacked a comprehensive SMS and flight data monitoring, and did not use flight simulators. From the reports, there was little operational control of the flight other than some rudimentary flight-tracking tools. So, the pilot, left on his own, made several poor choices (weather briefing and flight risk assessment) and created this self-induced pressure of flying a high-profile client to an event. In the end, the pilot just kept pressing; not once, did he consider aborting the trip or just landing, somewhere. If he did, the outcome would have been much different. Read Kipp Lau's Entire Blog Post NTSB releases final report into helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant The NTSB has released its final report into the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and seven others. On Feb. 9, the NTSB said the accident's cause was due to the pilot's poor decisions. Officials said the pilot made a critical error by flying through thick clouds that ended up disorienting him, which resulted in the plane crashing into terrain in Calabasas, California. On Thursday, the NTSB said they had offered two new safety recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration and Island Express because of the crash investigation. Island Express is the company that owned the helicopter Bryant was riding in when he died. The NTSB recommends using appropriate stimulation devices during initial and recurrent pilot training for operating helicopters for the FAA. They also recommend they convene a multidisciplinary panel made up of aircraft performance, human factors, and aircraft operations specialists to evaluate spatial disorientation simulation technologies. The NTSB said they would help determine which applications are most effective for training pilots to recognize the onset of spatial disorientation and successfully. For Island Express, the NTSB recommends participating in the FAA's Safety Management System Voluntary Program and installing flight data recording devices. https://www.thedenverchannel.com/sports/ntsb-releases-final-report-into-helicopter-crash-that-killed-kobe-bryant