"Our investigators have already developed a substantial amount of evidence about the circumstances of this tragic crash. And we are confident that we will be able to determine its cause as well as any factors that contributed to it so we can make safety recommendations to prevent accidents like this from occurring again.”
Source: NTSB Chairman Robert L. Sumwalt, discussing initial observations surrounding the tragic Sikorsky S-76B accident that took the lives of nine people, including Kobe Bryant and his daughter, GiGi.
The site was prepared at NASA Glenn by the Learning Technologies Project (LTP) to provide background information on basic propulsion for secondary math and science teachers. The pages were originally prepared as teaching aids to support EngineSim, an interactive educational computer program that allows students to design and test jet engines on a personal computer.
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