Jordan Moreau The National Transportation Safety Board has ruled that the pilot flying the helicopter in which NBA legend Kobe Bryant and eight others were killed was likely disoriented by flying through clouds before the crash.The federal safety officials came to the ruling Tuesday during a virtual meeting to determine the probably cause of the tragic crash.Pilot Ara Zobayan, who often transported Bryant, was “flying under visual flight orders, or VFR, which legally prohibited him from penetrating the clouds,” but he continued to fly into the clouds, said NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt.In June, the NTSB said Zobayan told air traffic controllers that the helicopter was ascending out of heavy clouds, when the aircraft was actually descending.
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