The bodies of all nine people aboard the helicopter that crashed near Los Angeles which killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant have been recovered, the coroner’s office said Tuesday.
Three bodies were retrieved from the wreckage by a special response team Sunday, and the remaining six on Monday, it said.
The remains were “removed from the crash site and transported to the department’s forensic science centre,” the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said in a statement.
Investigators are examining the bodies and working to identify the individual remains.
Meanwhile, below are the photos of the heartbreaking moment Kobe Bryant’s helicopter exploded in a fireball after it crashed.
The photos, taken in the aftermath of the crash by a witness show the flaming wreckage of the helicopter after it plunged 1,000 feet into a hillside.
The witness said he saw ‘helicopter parts flying everywhere’ after the aircraft emerged from ‘out of the fog’ and exploded in a ‘huge fireball’.
Before the crash, Pilot Ara Zobayan had told air traffic controllers that he was climbing to avoid a cloud layer.
