A great deal of attention has been paid to the helicopter that that basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, age 13, were riding at the time of their tragic crash. The pilot had to get special permission to take off from the John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, because of foggy conditions and was trying to climb above the clouds at the time the chopper crashed into the hills near Calabasas.
A source who knows the Bryants said that Kobe and his wife, Vanessa, had planned for this kind of eventuality and made arrangements as a precaution. “He and Vanessa had a deal that they would never fly on a helicopter together,” the source told People.
