The brother of the pilot flying the helicopter that crashed and killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others argued in a court filing Monday that Bryant knew the risks of flying and the pilot shouldn’t be held responsible.
The documents filed by Berge Zobayan, brother of the late pilot Ara Zobayan, are an answer to Vanessa Bryant’s wrongful death lawsuit against Zobayan and Island Express, the charter company. She filed in February. The lawsuit claims Ara Zobayan was flying too fast in heavy fog and failed to assess the weather at every pivotal point of the trip.