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The death of former Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant sent shockwaves throughout the world of sports and beyond. Bryant was one of nine killed in a crash of his helicopter yesterday morning in the Calabasas area just northwest of Los Angeles. The helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76B built-in 1991, departed John Wayne Airport at 9:06 a.m. Sunday, according to publicly available flight records. They were en route to a basketball tournament in which he was coaching, and his daughter was playing at his Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks. It was foggy at the time of the crash.