Possible Kobe Bryant reason for death?
The helicopter pilot was with a company called IEX (Island Express) which flies to Catalina Island. This pilot was very familiar with the Island.
If the manager from The Standard Hotel would have flown to Catalina Island they would have landed on IEX's helipad.
However about 5 miles out of Avalon Town, on Catalina Island there is an Airport , The Airport in the Sky.
Someone noted somewhere that Catalina Island was potentially a sex trafficking base. If so, the locals are unaware but the airport is very rural and small.
All last winter the Marines were stationed at The Airport in The Sky the story was that the runway needed to be re-done and the Marines were there to put in a new tarmac. "For Training" on how to put down tarmac in remote locations. They literally had to fly in bulldozers and tons of heavy machinery for a very small runway. There were at least a hundred Marines stationed at the Airport in the Sky for months. (The weather was bad and it rained a great deal, but we are talking the size of 2 average strip malls) They local construction company was taking up to five loads of cement/asphalt a day to the airport.
Then again, recently, someone somewhere had said that Catalina was "cleared" of trafficking.
Perhaps this Kobe Bryant death was more about what the pilot knew more than anything to do with Kobe.