Bryant crash: Recovery of bodies will take a while

(28 Jan 2020) Coroner's officials worked to recover victims' remains Monday from the hillside outside Los Angeles where a helicopter carrying retired Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others crashed. Aviation experts say the crash may have been caused by the pilot becoming disoriented in the fog.

While the cause of the tragedy is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, some experts raised questions of whether the helicopter should have even been flying. The weather was so foggy that the Los Angeles Police Department and the county sheriff's department had grounded their own choppers.

The Sikorsky S-76 went down Sunday morning, killing the retired athlete along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and everyone else aboard and scattering debris over an area the size of a football field.

Crews recovered three bodies on Sunday and resumed the effort on Monday amid an outpouring of grief and shock around the world over the loss of the basketball great who helped lead the Los Angeles Lakers to five NBA titles during his dazzling 20-year career.



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