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You had that many followers?
Times 34. Our boy Pug is a bit of a Twitter sensation.
You had that many followers?
"The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said the coroner’s office was still on the scene and they had no plans to release identities right now. The Medical Examiner Examiner’s Office said earlier Monday that the remains of three bodies were recovered."The gravity when an official tells the media not just that the victims died but that they “perished.”
In other words, blown to smithereens. They’ll need dental records or DNA to positively ID the nine.
Thanks. I am hoping 2020 gets better then we have this tragedy with Kobe and his daughter and the seven others and then we're going to have the most vicious and vile election cycle this year. I will be even worse than 2016. I hope I'm up for it. But more than that I hope the president is up for it. I think he is.Sorry, Scott.
Thank you Donkey.Sorry, Scott.
I would sure as hell hope that a pilot, pressured or not, wouldn't fly in conditions that he knows could get him and everyone else on board killed. I would hope a pilot would be smarter than that. We're talking life and death here.
We may wish that all those people you mentioned were more valuable, but they weren't. Of all people to be able to see the cold reality, I'm surprised a bit by your sappy, unrealistic view.
To specific individuals directly impacted by a teacher, saved by a DR or marine, those people absolutely were (or should have been) more value, but on the scale of someone as well known, and great at his very popular event, it's just not true. You and I may not have been motivated one bit by Kobe, but tens of thousands (or more) people were motivated by him. Plus, to completely downplay the role of athletes in impacting communities, as well as families that watch together, by winning and sharing that potential greatness, is intentionally being ignorant to make your point that we should value other things more. Perhaps we should, but we don't. There is a reason he is getting all this attention for his passing and others that die daily in various crashes/accidents do not. It is not a political agenda (as the John Lennon, Arnold Palmer or Payne Stewart analogies would reveal), it is just reality (as is his bank account) of who was more valuable in the larger societal sense (not some religious, gates of heaven, who was a "better person" in the eyes of god assessment).
Also, using your analogy of how would the entire world be different without him, without 1 specific teacher or 1 specific cop, firefighter etc, does the whole world change? Would there not be another teacher, just like there would be another basketball player? If not, then we would pay more until there was a replacement teacher. Whereas, Kobe changes entire history books by winning championships for a particular city that impacts millions. He was so famous because he was not so simply replaceable. Sure, some other city would win and cause the impact somewhere else, but that is not what happened. It was Kobe winning and scoring all those points. It was his death that had people all over LA flooding streets crying. I didn't shed a tear, but I can't deny that so many others did because he was important to them.
It’s not that hard to get a license, so you don’t have to be that smart. Hell, I almost got mine but quit after my instructor got killed in an ultralight accident. Bad things happen, but they happen more frequently if you make bad decisions, like flying in someone else’s ultralight or flying in a canyon in pea soup.
i got my private pilots license about 12 years ago. It was pretty easy. Took a class, I can’t remember but it was a 40 or 60 hour course. Had to pass the class exam, and then a state written exam. Then I had to pass a flight exam with a FAA instructor. It wasn’t hard. The course work wasn’t hard. Neither was the flight exam.
According to this article, yes he could (and should) have gone up instead of down to avoid the fog. Regarding the suicide mission, the guy was traveling at 161 knots and hit the mountainside full speed, so it does make you wonder.
Kobe Bryant Helicopter Pilot Misjudged Terrain and Didn't Slow Down, Pilots Say
Unless my math is really wrong, you’re saying he was 60?We came to know him more than 720 months ago.
do you still fly?