Huyền thoại bóng rổ Kobe Bryant qua đời

sương mù rất xấu, phi công (máy bay trực thăng) phải quyết định: quay lại hay..., anh quyết định bay tiếp, sau lần liên lạc cuối lúc 9:45 sáng, máy bay đâm sầm vào sườn đồi ở độ cao 1,085 feet.
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...The helicopter (máy bay trực thăng) carrying (chở) the basketball (bóng rổ) legend (huyền thoại) Kobe Bryant on Sunday morning circled over a golf course (sân gôn) in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park, awaiting clearance (đợi tín hiệu ok) from air traffic controllers (đài kiểm soát không lưu) to continue its flight into the hills.

The weather 55 miles south in Orange County, where the helicopter had departed less than an hour earlier, had been fine — four miles visibility (tầm nhìn xa). Mr. Bryant had routinely made the same flight from his home on the coast to the Camarillo airport, near his basketball academy north of Los Angeles.

But now, up ahead, a fog so thick that it nearly blinded drivers on the freeway enveloped the hillsides near their destination. Visibility was so poor that the Los Angeles Police Department had grounded its fleet of helicopters. The pilot had a decision to make (phải quyết định), one that might have proved fatal (chết người).

Turn around? Begin flying on instruments and head to a safe airport? The pilot, who by all accounts had a sterling safety record and was licensed (được cấp phép) to fly in inclement (khắc nghiệt) weather, kept going...

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