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26 Jan: Kobe Bryant fatal helicopter crash

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Carro:
https://www.tmz.com/2020/01/26/kobe-bryant-killed-dead-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas/
https://nypost.com/2020/01/26/kobe-bryant-reportedly-killed-in-california-helicopter-crash/
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N72EX/history/20200126/1708Z
This is the audio I could find. You can't hear the pilot on the last frequency.
RIP

justapilot:
Audio of other portions of the flight, along with my notes.  Timestamps in recordings approximate - the clock on my player was jumping around.
KBUR Twr 1700Z
+10:07 N72EX calls KBUR Tower requesting Special VFR
+14:40 Twr advises continue holding for traffic
KBUR Twr 1730Z
+02:35 Cleared 2EX Special VFR along I5
+06:48 Plans to loop around VNY to 101.  Flightaware track shows altitude between 800-1400'
+07:22 Contact VNY 119.0
KVNY Twr 1730Z (Carro's post)
+05:30 Cleared along Hwy 118 W bound
+09:31 Contact SoCal 134.2  Flightaware track shows altitude around 1200', climbing to 1900' before contact lost at 17:45:23Z
KBUR Twr/Approach 1730Z
+01:46 Cleared Special VFR (same call as on Twr recording above)
+04:20 Contact VNY 119.0 (same as above)
+09:35 (callsign blocked, but presumably the helo) Approach says will lose comms soon, squawk VFR, call CMA Twr

friedclutch:
interesting. The flight data has been pulled from flight aware

lajim:
FlightRadar24 shows the helicopter proceeding west along the 101 freeway. It suddenly veers to the south and then back to the east with rapid descent. The final vertical speed is -4,864 fpm. This does not look like controlled flight into terrain. Looks like very sudden and uncontrolled descent and spiral.

wiedehopf:
Here is a KML file of the ADS-B coordinates transmitted by the helicopter.
The KML file has the ModeS/ADS-B altitudes corrected for an altimeter setting of 30.17 (+225ft) and converted to meters.

The forum didn't like the kml file, so i added .txt at the end, it might need to be removed to view it in some software.
You can view that KML file on google earth by adding it to a collection: http://earth.google.com/

Uncorrected altitudes in feet and ground speed in knots can be seen in the two attached pictures.

Data in the pictures and the KML file is from https://adsbexchange.com/

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