We have asked, and been asked, before.

If you had illicit people cargo at a port, say Long Beach or Port of Los Angeles, what are the ways you could transport them without going on a road?

Helicopters is one possibility.

Also trains, tunnels, bicycle, etc.

Planefags know there are a LOT of private choppers who fly all over the extended LA metro and outlying areas and up and down the coast. We see them all the time.

Law enforcement uses choppers extensively too. Private choppers would be less noticeable among the frequent LE choppers.

There's also an ordinance in LA requiring new high-rise buildings over a certain height to include a chopper pad on the roof. Yep. It was supposedly for fire protection.

Anyway, I don't know anything particular about Kobe's use of a private helicopter.

Pic related: LA Modifies Fire Code Requirement for all Skyscrapers to be Topped with Helipad

Might this play a role in human trafficking?

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>>7925845

You saw the video? The occupants would have been incinerated in the fireball.

Not a pilot but why didn't the chopper autorotate? Is that function automatic when engine power fails, or does the pilot have to do something to disengage the rotor from the drive shaft? I'm thinking something mechanical prevented autorotation from making the landing more gentle.

>>7925848

>>7925968

Why not? The rotor doesn't turn because the air contains water droplets? Just curious. Not a pilot.

>>7926026 Logical

>>7926013 Thank you anon

>>7925990 OK, i learned something new Thanks

>>7926064

We did a couple, but not lately.

>>7926090

If there's a tail number we can look it up in Flightaware.

Sorry, missed a few breads. Anybody got the Tail # handy?

>>7926087

>N72EX

Got it. I'm looking up the Flightaware data.

>>7926160

>>7926173

Kobe chopper last flight

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N72EX

The track log (speed vs. altitude graph) appears to be incomplete. It does not show the chopper going down.

Pic 3 is the full track log with all the data points reported by the chopper's ADSB transponder and picked up by some crowdsourced receiver on the ground.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N72EX/history/20200126/1708Z/tracklog

It appears to match the abbreviated track log of pic 2.

Is this the flight prior to the one where it crashed? Or is this the flight that was terminated by the fiery crash?

Sorry, I have been out and haven't seen the articles giving the details of when the crash occurred.

>>7926087

Aviation Incidents doesn't have anything on this crash.

https://avherald.com/

>>7926239 This data I found

does not match the data another anon found here >>7925624

It appears that >>7925624 is the track of the crashed flight and >>7926239 was a prior flight today.