By now, anyone who follows sports, and even many who don’t, have heard of the death of basketball great Kobe Bryant who played with the LA Lakers for 20 years before he retired four years ago. He died Sunday in a helicopter crash that also claimed the life of his 13-year-old daughter and seven other people, including the pilot.
There’s an unspoken rule among professional pilots that we don’t question whether or not the pilot of a fatal aviation crash did anything wrong to bring about such a tragedy. We’re all human, and we know that we can all screw up ...