Kobe Bryant was the proud father of four daughters. Image: reuters
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Never together in a helicopter: Kobe Bryant and his wife had a deal
On Sunday morning came basketball legend Kobe Bryant with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna in a helicopter accident near Los Angeles (California) about life.
In an interview from 2018, the top athlete revealed why he prefers to travel around Los Angeles by private helicopter. In addition, it has now become known that Kobe Bryant and his wife Vanessa had signed a helicopter pact that they never traveled together in a helicopter.
So why was Bryant on the helicopter so much? He told the Barstool Sports portal in 2018:
Touching: Bryant apparently didn’t want to lose a second of time together with his girls. But at some point the time management stopped working: Den Requirements for him as a professional athlete, the Everyday school life of his children including those free time activities especially on weekends, Bryant simply couldn’t do it by car alone.
Always in a traffic jam
Congested streets. Everyday life in Los Angeles. Image: iStockphoto / getty images
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Ever since he started using a private helicopter, everyday life had been a bit more routine, Bryant explains: “The routine has always been the same. Lifting weights early in the morning, children going to school, going down to school, exercising like crazy, doing my extra work, flying back media, everything I had to do, getting back into the car pool and pick up the kids. “
“I want that!”
At some point, his wife offered him: “Listen, I can pick up the children …”. But the ambitious super daddy Kobe replied, “No, no, no, I want to do this.” His explanation: He was traveling too often and there were so many times when he couldn’t see his kids.
Photo from 2010: daughter Gianna (l.), Daddy Kobe and little Natalia Image: imago images / Icon SMI
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Helicopter pact with his wife: never together in a helicopter
Apparently had an agreement: Vanessa and Kobe Bryant, here in a picture from the 2018 Oscars. Image: imago images / Cinema Publishers Collection
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Risk helicopter! That Kobe Bryant and his wife Vanessa appear to be aware of the dangers a report from the magazine “People” testifies to this.
An unspecified “source” had told the magazine: “He and Vanessa had an agreement that they would never fly together in a helicopter.”
The reason is obvious: If something should happen to you, the other could continue to take care of the children and they would never lose both parents at once.
The same source also reports that Kobe Bryant “only” flew in helicopters with pilot Ara Zobayan.
The 50-year-old Zobayan was considered an experienced pilot and also drove the Sikorski helicopter on that Sunday morning of the disaster. At 9:06 a.m. local time, he started from Orange County, the home of the basketball idol, on the way to Thousand Oaks.
About an hour later, the pilot and all eight occupants were dead …
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