Kobe Bryant Crash Investigation Shows No Evidence of Engine Failure

At one point during the public memorial service Monday for Kobe and Gianna Bryant and the seven others who died Jan. 26 in a tragic helicopter accident, fellow basketball legend — and Bryant “big brother” — Michael Jordan tearfully noted, “When Kobe died, a piece of me died.

At one point during the public memorial service Monday (Feb. 24) for Kobe and Gianna Bryant and the seven others who died on Jan.

Vanessa Bryant’s attorneys have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company that owned and operated the helicopter that crash on January 26, killing Kobe Bryant, their 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other passengers. According to the Los Angeles Times, in a complaint filed against the Island Express Helicopter and Island Express Holding Corp alleged that the pilot Ara Zobayan failed “to use ordinary care in piloting the aircraft and was “negligent.”

The pilot of a helicopter that crashed into a Southern California hillside, killing Kobe Bryant and eight others, was reprimanded five years ago for flying without permission into airspace while he had reduced visibility, according to a Federal Aviation Administration enforcement record.

“Thank you guys so much for coming, it really means a lot to all of us.” JJ Altobelli, 29, told the crowd gathered at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California on Feb. 10.

Loved ones paid tribute to the Altobelli family during a memorial service on Monday.

By Erik Pedersen

More information about the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others was released on February 4. HollywoodLife obtained five separate 911 calls that were place by witnesses of the horrific crash as it was happening on January 26. Multiple callers described thick fog, loud noises and flames, telling 911 dispatchers that they could hear, but not see the aircraft in the hills of Calabasas.

Olivia Culpo has a connection to 16-year-old Lexi Altobelli, 16, who is one of the surviving family members of three of the victims who died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas on Jan. 26.

Olivia Culpo is doing her part to help Lexi Altobelli, a young woman who lost both her parents and younger sister in the tragic helicopter crash that also claimed the lives of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and four others.

The Bryant's are staying strong. 

The victims of Sunday's devastating helicopter crash are being remembered.

One journalist is being forced to take a time-out after covering Kobe Bryant's death.

In the first reports about the tragic deaths of Kobe Bryant, 41, daughter Gianna Bryant, 13, and 7 others, it was rumored that Kobe’s Los Angeles Lakers teammate Rick Fox, 50, had died in the crash as well. That horrible rumor turned out not to be true and Rick broke his silence about the terrible situation on TNT’s Inside the NBA on Jan.

The pilot of the helicopter that crashed on Sunday, killing Kobe Bryant and eight others, radioed to the tower that he was trying to get above the clouds shortly before the crash, an NTSB official said Monday.

By Anita Bennett

By Erik Pedersen

Fans and celebrities continue to mourn and share touching tributes of the late Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash near Calabasas on Sunday, Jan. 26. 

Kylie Jenner has revealed she often used the helicopter, in which basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter died.