The federal agency tasked with investigating the helicopter crash that killed Kobe and Gianna Bryant, along with 7 others, will announce their findings in a Tuesday meeting — including the probable cause of the accident.
National Transportation Safety Board will meet virtually Tuesday — and it will be open to the public, so we’ll live stream the whole thing here.
The NTSB has been working on the case ever since the aircraft — a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter — crashed in Calabasas on Jan 26, 2020.
As we previously reported, the NTSB initially said preliminary findings showed no outward evidence of engine failure — and months into the investigation, officials said the pilot may have been disoriented when the aircraft was caught in deep fog.
Autopsy results showed the pilot, Ara Zobayan, was NOT on alcohol or drugs at the time of the crash … and NTSB investigators said Zobayan’s girlfriend told them he was in great shape before the accident.
The NTSB said in June it found evidence showing Zobayan thought he was ascending over the fog, when in reality, the helicopter was going downward at a high rate of speed.
In addition to revealing the likely cause of the crash, the NTSB is also expected to make flight recommendations for similar aircraft in the hopes of preventing another tragedy.
Along with Kobe and Zobayan, seven others — including Kobe’s daughter, Gianna, and friends Alyssa Altobelli, Keri Altobelli, John Altobelli, Christina Mauser, Payton Chester and Sarah Chester — perished in the Jan. 26, 2020 crash.
#RIP