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Feds probe helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant

French national and longtime US resident Natalie Burle blows a kiss in direction of Kobe Bryant mural in downtown Los Angeles on January 27, 2020.

Federal investigators on Monday sifted through the wreckage of the helicopter crash that killed basketball legend Kobe Bryant and eight other people, hoping to find clues to what caused the accident that stunned the world.

Bryant, 41, was traveling Sunday with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other passengers and crew when the Sikorsky S-76 slammed into a rugged hillside in thick fog in Calabasas, northwest of LA. There were no survivors.

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