Lawsuit Likely Following Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash

Former U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General Mary Schiavo, a partner at Motley Rice, said that lawyers would be looking at multiple facts, including the conversation between the air traffic control and the pilot just before Sunday’s crash, which killed the LA Lakers star and eight others.

"Those next sentences could be billion dollar words," Shiavo said.

The cause of the helicopter crash that killed retired Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven other people, remains unknown.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash, which occurred on a foggy Sunday morning in Los Angeles.

Could there be a lawsuit?

The Recorder talked to former U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General Mary Schiavo, a partner at Motley Rice, whose firm brought a lawsuit over a crash of the U.S. Army’s Black Hawk helicopter, a Sikorsky similar to the one that was taking Bryant and the other passengers to his daughter’s basketball game.