The lawsuit was filed on the same day the Laker great and his daughter were remembered at a memorial in Los Angeles.
Lawyers for Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Laker great Kobe Bryant, on Monday filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the company that operated the helicopter that crashed into a California hillside last month, killing her husband, 13-year-old daughter and seven others.gathered at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, to remember Bryant and his daughter Gianna.
In an emailed statement, a spokesman for Island Express said: “This was a tragic accident. We will have no comment on the pending litigation.” The investigation is ongoing, but many have focused on the poor weather conditions the morning of the crash. There were low clouds and restricted visibility in the area.released this month by investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board, showed the helicopter disappearing into clouds, before emerging. A witness on a nearby mountain bike trail spotted the helicopter shortly before it slammed into a hillside. The NTSB’s report did not indicate why the helicopter crashed.
On the day of the crash, Zobayan had requested and received permission to pass through controlled airspace near the Burbank and Van Nuys airports in worse-than-normal visibility. Shortly after, he followed a helicopter route along Highway 101. He climbed to 2,300 feet and began to turn left, before for unknown reasons began diving at a high speed into a hillside.
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