Homendy also provided these details on the investigation: The others have been identified by family and friends as Bryant’s daughter Gianna Bryant, 13 Christina Mauser, a coach at Harbor Day School in Corona del Mar and Chester’s daughter, Payton Chester. The coroner’s office said Tuesday it had positively identified the bodies of Bryant, 41, Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli, 56, his wife Keri and daughter Alyssa Sarah Chester and pilot Ara Zobayan. The Sikorski S-76B that crashed Sunday would have qualified as it received an airworthiness certificate in May 1991, FAA records show. The NTSB had also recommended that all transport helicopters built before October 1991 have a cockpit voice recorder or a cockpit image recorder with the ability to record cockpit audio and crew communications. The chopper did not have a Terrain Awareness and Warning System that could have alerted the pilot to the hillside even though the NTSB had recommended to the Federal Aviation Administration that all similar helicopters have the equipment after deadly crashes in 20, NTSB investigator Jennifer Homendy said at a news conference. The aircraft missed clearing the hill by 20-30 feet, they said. The helicopter that crashed in foggy conditions Sunday in Calabasas, killing all aboard including Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, took a roughly one-minute dive before slamming into a hillside, National Transportation Safety Board officials said Tuesday, Jan.
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