The pilot flying NBA legend Kobe Bryant, 41, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna Bryant, and several others to a youth basketball tournament near Los Angeles in January did not have alcohol or drugs in his system when the helicopter crashed into a hillside, according to autopsy reports released Friday. The causes of death for all nine people aboard was blunt trauma.

Earlier this week, the pilot's brother claimed in court documents that the pilot shouldn't be held responsible. The documents, filed in response to a wrongful death suit from the NBA star's widow, Vanessa Bryant, claimed that Kobe Bryant knew of the risks of flying in a helicopter and chose to anyway.

n her suit, Vanessa Bryant claimed that the pilot and the company he worked for put their Sikorsky S-76B in the air when conditions weren't safe for flying. Fog was heavy on the morning of the crash, obscuring visibility for miles in hilly terrain between the Pacific Coast and Thousand Oaks.

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