USA: Kobe Bryant vigil erected near deadly helicopter crash

W/S Vigil, Calabasas
M/S Flowers, candles, and LA Lakers cap
W/S Road leading to helicopter crash site
W/S Scattered debris at helicopter crash site
SOT, Scott Dylan, eyewitness: "From my vantage point and what I observed, I think that they were going slower than as described. And I think [the pilot] was doing a slow search, searching hub or trying to identify any piece of ground to maybe spot some kind of a landing."
W/S Road leading to the crash site
SOT, Scott Dylan, eyewitness: "I knew it exactly that they went in the side of the mountain. I know 'cos it just stopped. And I went, 'Oh my God'. 'Cos I just, I felt it. It was like, 'Grab some altitude'. You know, all the old pilots will tell you from going especially with the Big Swing. Speed and altitude are life. If you have altitude and speed, it's an insurance policy. If you get down low and dirty close to the ground and slow, you're in a real dangerous [situation]. Nature's very, very unforgiving. It'll reach out and get you."
W/S Fence and road signs
SOT, Scott Dylan, eyewitness: "I am waiting, I am waiting to hear from the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) to make my observations. I'm not an eyewitness, I'm really an 'earwitness' in this case. No pun intended, but..."
Journalist: "But it sounds like no-one could have been an eyewitness."
Scott Dylan, eyewitness: "Nobody, nobody, nobody saw."
Journalist: "Yep, yep."
Scott Dylan, eyewitness: "Nobody saw anything until the impact happened. Everybody reacted and turned around. 'Oh, something happened.' They saw the impact but that's all post-collision."
W/S Fence and road signs
W/S Vigil, fence and road signs
SCRIPT
A vigil was set up in the vicinity of the site where US basketball legend Kobe Bryant and eight others lost their lives in a helicopter crash, in Calabasas on Monday.
Footage shows flowers and candles decorated with the colours of the LA Lakers, where Bryant spent his entire 20-year career. The crash site is visible from a nearby town.
Self-identified 'earwitness' Scott Ryan described the moment he heard the crash.
"I knew it exactly that they went in the side of the mountain. I know 'cos it just stopped," Ryan said, who is still waiting to hear from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to make his observations.
"I think [the pilot] was doing a slow search, searching hub or trying to identify any piece of ground to maybe spot some kind of a landing," he recalled.
According to preliminary information released by the authorities, Bryant's helicopter crashed due to bad weather conditions.