Texts messages in the hours before the helicopter flight that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant and eight other people show weather conditions were a concern and that the pilot appeared to become disoriented in fog.
Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others on the aircraft were killed as they headed to a youth basketball game on a foggy January morning.
Weather and visibility were critical to the accident, a performance study from the National Transportation Safety Board pointed out in newly released documents.
The documents — more than a thousands pages — detail much of the investigation.
Those documents are not the final report in the case, which will determine the exact cause of the crash.
Before every flight with Bryant, a group text was always created in order to keep everyone in communication about the flights.
That group text mentioned weather concerns prior to the flight, but they were dismissed by both the pilot and the flight coordinator.
