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This is a tremendous loss for our campus community,” OCC President Angelica Suarez said in a statement.Īltobelli’s wife, Keri Altobelli, and their 13-year-old daughter, Alyssa, who played on the club team with Bryant’s daughter, were also among the victims, according to his family. “Coach Altobelli was a giant on our campus - a beloved teacher, coach, colleague and friend. As a mentor and coach for 27 years, he helped students earn scholarships to play at four-year colleges and treated players like family, the school said in a statement. But Orange Coast College confirmed that baseball coach John Altobelli was among the others who died in the crash. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office is working on retrieving the bodies and has not officially identified any of the victims. “That’s enough to start a pretty big fire,” he said. After a 40-minute flight, Deetz added, the craft would have had about 800 pounds of fuel on board. Judging from a public record of the flight path and the wide debris field, Deetz said, it appears the helicopter was traveling very fast at the time of impact, about 160 mph. “The likelihood of a catastrophic twin engine failure on that aircraft - it just doesn’t happen,” he said. The crash was more likely caused by bad weather than engine or mechanical issues, he said.

Kurt Deetz, a former pilot for Island Express Helicopters who used to fly Bryant in the chopper, said weather conditions were poor in Van Nuys on Sunday morning - “not good at all.” “The fire also included magnesium, which is very hard for firefighters to extinguish because magnesium reacts with oxygen and water.” “Our firefighters hiked into the accident site with their medical equipment and hose lines to extinguish the stubborn fire as it included the brush fire … and the helicopter,” Osby said during a news conference Sunday afternoon. Responders included 56 fire personnel - firefighters, a helicopter with paramedics, hand crews - and sheriff’s deputies. Authorities received a 911 call at 9:47 a.m., and firefighters arrived to find that the crash had ignited a quarter-acre brush fire in steep terrain, said L.A. near Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas. The crash occurred shortly before 10 a.m. The chopper passed over Boyle Heights, near Dodger Stadium, and circled over Glendale during the flight. Sunday, according to publicly available flight records. The helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76B built in 1991, departed John Wayne Airport at 9:06 a.m.