MagicBagley18 wrote:ATRAIN53 wrote:looks like the story is starting to take that turn I initially feared.He said Zobayan should have turned around or landed but may have felt the pressure to reach his destination, an occupational hazard for pilots often referred to as 'got-to-get-there-itis' or 'get-home-itis'.
'Somebody who’s a wealthy celebrity who can afford a helicopter to go places, the reason they take the helicopter is so they can get from A to B quickly with no hassle,' Waldman said.
'Anybody that flies for a living there’s sort of an inherent pressure to get the job done because if too many times they go, "No, I don’t think I can fly, the weather’s getting bad or it’s too windy," ... they’re going to lose their job.”
'They take chances that maybe they shouldn't take,' Waldman said.
Wow. that makes this even worse if so because it really didn't have to happen.
it only happened because the guy took a risk he didn't need to just to impress his client.
this coulld get ugly with lawsuits if they can prove that.
would you lawyer up if you were a surviving family?
This is unfortunately what I was referring to on past posts when people said “it’s the pilots job just to say no if the weathers bad” - that’s right on paper and in a perfect world Sadly however these guys don’t wanna loss their job and the clients who pay them don’t want to hear the word “no” or “not possible”.
I’ve seen it so many times where people do things out of their comfort zone to keep a job, please an employer or maintain relationships and I’ve seen it happen more when that person who pays them is a celeb or in a position of power.
he absolutely should have said no if the weather is bad but he also didn’t want to lose his job and honestly people take risks every day that they shouldn’t. Whether it be driving through the orange lights and not stopping at a red, driving too fast, not buckling a seat belt or not wearing a helmet on a motorcycle, recreational drug use etc.
this was a horrible tragedy and yes on the surface the pilot does look like he made mistakes and obviously because we lost 9 people tragically - he at least in some capacity is to blame but I really think without a blackbox, without knowing past flight experiences with Kobe and so many variables it’s too hard to just focus on what he did wrong.
It’s just a sad terrible thing any way you look at and also way more complicated than people think
The weird thing is that Kobe’s previous pilot said he had never once felt pressure from Kobe to fly when he shouldn’t. That Kobe was very safety conscious as well.
Meanwhile this particular pilot had a stellar safety record himself.
I don’t know, I tend to believe one of two things happened. Either A) The pilot severely underestimated the fog in that part of LA and became disoriented. Maybe the fog was manageable in Newport but got worse as he travelled north. I do not understand though why he was traveling at such a high rate of speed if that disoriented...why not slow the chopper way down? Or B) He was having some sort of episode and wasn’t in the right frame of mind. Maybe a combination of the two, really hard to say. I don’t really think it was a mechanical issue because of the lack of communication with the tower.
But really who knows at this point or if we will ever know.
