Did USAir hard landing play a factor?

[wms]

No trauma. Signs of heart disease.

 

[glasspilot]

Got a source? I did a quick web surf and found nothing about cause of death.

 

[thepotato232]

Wow, how'd you figure that out before the autopsy was completed? Results will be released this afternoon. I know it's in our nature to think ahead, but I'll just wait for the doctors on this one.

 

[wms]

Coroner press conference on FOX. The final tests will take weeks, but there was no truama. His heart showed signs of heart disease as well as a blockage.

 

[wms]

PS Company put us up at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

 

[Cowboy75]

TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- TV pitchman Billy Mays' death appeared to be from heart disease, not a bump to the head, according to the Hillsborough County medical examiner.

OxiClean pitchman Billy Mays died Sunday morning at his home in Tampa, authorities said.

Examiners conducted a preliminary autopsy Monday on Mays, the man with the booming voice famous for fronting products such as OxiClean and Orange Glo in TV commercials.
The pitchman was pronounced dead at his home near Tampa, Florida, Sunday morning, after his wife, Deborah, found him unresponsive, Tampa police said.
He was 50.
He had told a friend before he went to sleep Saturday he was not feeling well.
"He said he was groggy, he wasn't feeling that great. He wanted to get some sleep," Todd Schnitt said.

Watch friends remember Billy Mays »
Mays was on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia that had a hard landing Saturday at Tampa International Airport after the front tire of the plane blew out.
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After the flight, Mays told a Tampa TV station, "All of a sudden as we hit, you know, it was just the hardest hit, all the things from the ceiling started dropping. It hit me on the head, but I got a hard head."

Watch Mays talk about hard landing »
Airline spokesman Jim Olson told CNN on Sunday there were no reported passenger injuries from Flight 1241. The airline vowed to "cooperate fully" with authorities in the investigation.

 

[thepotato232]

PS Company put us up at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Well, I stand corrected.

Still, the preliminary autopsy hasn't been completed yet, according to all other media sources. You originally posted Fox News' conference about 15 minutes ago, which is a long time by intarweb metrics. If the kind folks whose job is to cut up the friendly TV guy had actually said anything, it would have reached somebody else's ears by now.

Waitiaminnit, are you sure you're not thinking of the preliminary Michael Jackson autopsy? That one was inconclusive with signs of heart disease...

EDIT: Ask, and ye shall receive. Cowboy75, afraid your links aren't working. Word is getting around, though.

 

[PropPiedmont]

You forgot Ed McMahon and Danny Gans.....

Been a tough couple of months in the celeb community.

And David Carradine.

 

[gutshotdraw]

I KNEW I was forgetting one......


Don't get old. It ain't for weaklings

 

[gutshotdraw]

And now, Fred Travalena dies. Okay, I know he wasn't exactly "A" list but the guy was funny and could do some pretty good impressions. Sad.

 

[Flyingcat]

As you can see, I do not post much on here. I read for entertainment value and sometimes even find some educational posts. What I thought was going to be some memorial about I guy none of can get out of are head. Now what I am reading is reportedly bunch of "Professional" pilots taking jabs about a couple of their own because a couple of tires blew.

I am not an airline pilot as you can see. I have a license to learn. However, I offer this advice. Unless you were in the cockpit on the said flight reserve your comments about the media experts interpretation as to what happened. Was it a hard landing? Or, was it a hard landing because when the nose wheel settled to the ground the tires blew? Not for me to judge. I will Wait for the NTSB report first. There are a host of things it could be.

It is so sad to see reported adult "professional aviators" make some of the comments I read.

Now, as far as Billy May's is concerned I feel for his family. I am sorry to here of anyone's early departure. It will be interesting to see the full results of the autopsy to see if getting hit in the head on the airplane. Again, I will wait for the coroner's determination just like I will wait for the NTSB to report.

 

[johnsonrod]

Great landing. Some of those old Eastie pilots need to either practice their landings more in the sim or just retire. Those old, dilapidated USAirways 737-300/400s should be replaced ASAP as well...

 

[General Lee]

Wow, how'd you figure that out before the autopsy was completed? Results will be released this afternoon. I know it's in our nature to think ahead, but I'll just wait for the doctors on this one.

He PROBABLY got a concussion from the bag hitting him in the head, and then he unfortunately went to sleep without supervision. I don't think you are supposed to do that. Yes, he had heart disease too, but the concussion probably led to something else.

What was up with that landing anyway? I would like to hear how that whole thing happen? Tight approach? The two pilots looked like they were both close to 60 years old too.(just an observation....)


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[Redeye]

Here it is:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mays-autopsy30-2009jun30,0,3463271.story

 

[JonnyKnoxville]

Great landing. Some of those old Eastie pilots need to either practice their landings more in the sim or just retire. Those old, dilapidated USAirways 737-300/400s should be replaced ASAP as well...

How about a mentor program? Pair up an old pilot with an RJ stick and rudder kid and teach the old pilot how to fly again.

(I am not bashing old pilots, but I am bashing the proposed mentor program).