Pilot’s Family in Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash, Want Case Moved Out of L.A.

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Vanessa Bryant is currently suing the family of Ara Zobayan, the man who was flying the helicopter that killed him, Kobe Bryant and 6 other passengers, along with Island Express Helicopters in a wrongful death lawsuit. Vanessa wants both parties to be held financially responsible for the crash.

The family of Ara Zobayan want the wrongful death case moved out of Los Angeles due to Bryant’s popularity in the city. The family believes the trial would be unfair. Adding that all of the passengers lived in Orange County, another reason the case should be moved.

Officials believe Zobayan got disoriented when he flew into heavy fog and accidentally flew down into the mountains when he thought he was elevating above the fog layer.

“The notoriety and popularity of the late Kobe Bryant in Los Angeles County is detailed herein and reached a level that left no person in the county unaware of his role in branding Los Angeles as his city,” Zobayan’s family says in new court docs.

“No other single individual in recent memory, sports figure or otherwise, has been considered by the people to be such a personification of their city of Los Angeles. ”

“But with that unprecedented level of acclaim comes a lack of impartiality and objectivity by potential jurors about the merits under the law of the claims asserted in this lawsuit by the Bryant family.”

Source: TMZ

Pilot’s Family in Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash, Want Case Moved Out of L.A.

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