Kobe Bryant Crash: Home Doorbell Camera Captures The Sound Of Doomed Helicopter¡¯s Final Moments

A chilling doorbell CCTV footage released online appears to capture the sounds of the low-flying helicopter and the subsequent crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others onboard.

According to Abcnews, the local resident named Ronna Leavitt shared the 43-second clip with investigators and posted the same on Twitter.

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In it, the doomed helicopter Sikorsky S-76B chopper can be heard flying above her housing complex in Calabasas before it crashes with a thud into the surrounding hillside followed by an eerie silence.

Ronna Leavitt lives near the crash site where #KobeBryant and eight others were killed. She says this @ring video from her home captured the audio of the helicopter in its final moments.

She says the helicopter flew above her housing complex before crashing. @ABC7 pic.twitter.com/wWKc4efdUB

¡ª Veronica Miracle (@ABC7Veronica) January 29, 2020

The crash investigators have said that the chopper did not have a terrain awareness and warning system that could have provided critical information to the pilot.

Reuters

The helicopter took off at 9:06 a.m. from John Wayne Airport near Irvine in Orange County, California.

In addition to Bryant and his daughter, onboard were pilot Ara Zobayan, John Altobelli, Keri Altobelli, and their daughter Alyssa Altobelli, as well as Christina Mauser, Sarah Chester, and her daughter Payton Chester, reports ABC.

Officials have determined that the helicopter crashed just 20 to 30 feet from the top of the hill at a spot area located 1,085 feet above sea level. The area was a canyon with multiple hills of different elevations surrounding it.

The group had been on the way to a basketball game Sunday morning when the helicopter carrying them crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, California.