Autopsy: Pilot in Kobe Bryant Crash Had No Alcohol, Drugs

The pilot flying Kobe Bryant and seven others to a youth basketball tournament did not have alcohol or drugs in his system.
Autopsy: Pilot in Kobe Bryant Crash Had No Alcohol, Drugs
Personnel collect debris while working with investigators at the helicopter crash site of NBA star Kobe Bryant in Calabasas, California on Jan. 28, 2020. Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters
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LOS ANGELES—The pilot flying Kobe Bryant and seven others to a youth basketball tournament did not have alcohol or drugs in his system, and all nine sustained immediately fatal injuries when their helicopter slammed into a hillside outside Los Angeles in January, according to autopsies released Friday.

The reports by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office provide a clinical but unvarnished look at the brutality of the crash.