I had an overnight in LA on Friday so I rented a car and drove out to the crash site just to get a feel for it. They had a few parking lots blocked off probably to keep assholes like me from loitering, so I had to go behind the school that was across the street from the Water Dept building that the crash occurred behind. It was late afternoon, so there were a few shadows on the couple trees on that hill, but it definitely looked like there was a charred spot further up the hill that looked like an impact site, and the wreckage rolled down the hill to its final resting spot. I hadn't seen this in any pics, so either I just missed it, or it was a shadow and I'm just blind. If that was in fact the impact location, I see why they said they were 20-30' from clearing the top. It looked more like 50' to me but who's counting. Either way, I don't see how there was a 2000 fpm decent before the impact. If there was, then the helo was going to easily clear the hill but then in the final seconds took a dive towards the ground. I'll try to post some pics if they turned out.
And since I was in town, there was no way I wasn't going to that game. I bought a ticket on the street about 30 minutes before tip for more than I'd like to admit, but once again, my ass was going to be in Staples for the ceremony. Like SBbruin said, it was extremely emotional. I was doing fine until they started showing pics of Kobe and Gigi together and then the allergies flared up. For the first and only time in my life, I was a Laker fan, but Dame Lillard had other plans. Either way, I'm glad I was there and it's a night I will never forget.