I can't believe Silver didn't postpone the games today. 

This is so horrible.

Helicopters go down way too often. What a damn tragedy.

Gianna (daughter) was on board.

 

2 minutes ago, SoxAce said:

 

Honestly, this was worth them playing today. Such raw emotion and tribute will be remembered for a long time.

Beautiful

Edited January 26, 20206 yr by Eloy Jiménez

 

42 minutes ago, SoxAce said:

 

I got a sad chuckle out of this.

If I'm the NBA, I honor him at the all star game by letting all the players in the East wear 8 and the West wear 24.

Speechless 

49 minutes ago, Eloy Jiménez said:

Honestly, this was worth them playing today. Such raw emotion and tribute will be remembered for a long time.

Beautiful

Looks like a UVa basketball game

Sounds like Kobe and his daughter, her teammate and parent, plus the pilot. So sad.

Just now, flavum said:

Sounds like Kobe and his daughter, her teammate and parent, plus the pilot. So sad.

Parent is a juco baseball coach 

Press conference saying nine total. Banner day in journalism.

RIP Kobe

 

Tragic day, not only because a beloved all time great passes away, but all those in the crash, especially sad for his young daughter...?

1 hour ago, fathom said:

Parent is a juco baseball coach 

Has to be the son or nephew of Joe Altobelli, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Altobelli

 

Hard to watch the interview with Doc Rivers...Ernie Johnson was just on CNN with Wolf Blitzer and was really torn up.

The last time I remember something so shocking was the announcement about Magic Johnson in the 90’s that changed the world in terms of AIDs/HIV awareness.

 

Edited January 27, 20206 yr by caulfield12

The LeBron interview from YESTERDAY is fucking creepy.. like he was reading a eulogy (and yes I know he passed him in all time points).

 

Edited January 27, 20206 yr by SoxAce

 

40 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Has to be the son or nephew of Joe Altobelli, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Altobelli

 

Hard to watch the interview with Doc Rivers...Ernie Johnson was just on CNN with Wolf Blitzer and was really torn up.

The last time I remember something so shocking was the announcement about Magic Johnson in the 90’s that changed the world in terms of AIDs/HIV awareness.

 

I don’t think John Altobelli is related to Joe. Seeing online John had a son JJ play for the Oregon Ducks years ago and his player profile didn’t mention Joe...which it probably would have if they were related. Hope JJ can take care of his surviving step sister. Such a tragedy. 

The audio of the flight is out on youtube now. It's not too bad, as you don't hear it hit or anything, but man it's so f***ing weird. He asks for special tracking due to the weather, the person at control says that he's too low, it tells us the signal is lost and that's it. So eerie. 

1 hour ago, soxfan49 said:

The audio of the flight is out on youtube now. It's not too bad, as you don't hear it hit or anything, but man it's so f***ing weird. He asks for special tracking due to the weather, the person at control says that he's too low, it tells us the signal is lost and that's it. So eerie. 

Just to clarify this point, as the media is wrongly clarifying what the pilot was said.

That relay is given many times a day - according to someone in ATC - and it's not a warning at all. It's merely being said to let them show they're not on radar, so they can't give you any additional information since they do not show up on radar. They are not telling the pilot he is flying too low; they are telling him he's too low to report/show up.

Here it is, btw

 

If I'm reading that radar right, they were waiting to go then maybe lost control?

Was hoping they didn't see it coming.

1 hour ago, Brian said:

If I'm reading that radar right, they were waiting to go then maybe lost control?

Was hoping they didn't see it coming.

That's my thing. I keep thinking about the terror they were feeling, but hopefully the fog created no depth perception & they never even saw the mountain and it was instant.