I wonder when the NTSB will start to add the attitudes of high-power passengers to the list of causes. Initial articles published indicated that Kobe had “fired” other pilots for not getting him where he needed to be and that this pilot was his “preferred pilot”. I feel extremely bad for all of these families, don’t get me wrong. However, like the Aaliyah crash in 2001, the attitude and demands of a high-power passenger were a factor. The pilot’s decisions were causal, but the passenger was a factor.