The crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others has the industry questioning the convenience of travel by chopper, even if it’s still safer than driving in a car
Despite his wealth and fame, former Lakers star Kobe Bryant struggled with traffic alongside everyone else in L.A. Unlike most contemporaries, he devised a workaround. "Traffic started getting really bad and I wound up missing school plays," he said in a 2018 podcast, "That's when I looked into helicopters."that killed Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, along with seven other people, on Jan.
Indeed, most of the choppers over L.A. belong to news crews, the Los Angeles Police Department or tourism operators. Large events like Coachella can cause a spike in usage, and they are employed to ferry people to movie sets and around film festivals like Cannes. New York City has a more robust helicopter commuting culture than L.A., especially to travel to the Hamptons. Last year, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom got engaged on a helicopter.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, helicopter travel is slightly more dangerous than commercial air travel, but much safer than traveling by car or in a small aircraft.
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