Hall of Fame MLB pitcher Roy Halladay was performing acrobatics in his plane and had a dangerous mixture of drugs in his system when the aircraft crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the shore of Florida at 2017, killing him, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.
The 40-year-old former Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies genius, who won more than 200 games and notched more than 2,000 strikeouts at a 16-year big-league career, had 10 times the recommended degree of amphetamine, as well as morphine, a muscle relaxer, an opioid pain medication, and antidepressants in his blood at the time of the crash, officials said.
Halladay performed high-pitch climbs and steep turns with the drugs in his system, sometimes within 5 ft of the water, witnesses said, as the maneuvers put heaps of nearly two-times gravity on the Icon A5 airplane he leased a month earlier, according to the report.
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Roy Halladay #32 of this Toronto Blue Jays pitches against the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards on May 27, 2009, in Baltimore. (Getty Images)
“It happened. I can’t take it back because of him,” Halladay’s younger sister, Heather, informed ESPN. “I know what type of person my brother was and that is all that really matters to me. I really do miss him like crazy and that is what this brings up.”
A commercial fisherman situated 900 feet north of the accident scene said it’d flown”quite close” to houses. Others stated the airplane was making steep turns and high-pitch climbs around approximately 500 ft, while maintaining that the engine seemed normal.
Throughout the previous 2-1/2 minutes of this flight, Halladay conducted three maneuvers with high angles of attack, the report added.
During his final movement, the rate of his propeller-driven plane fell to approximately 85 miles per hour since he entered a steep rise. It finally went into a nosedive and smashed to the water in a 45-degree angle near Clearwater, Fla., on Nov. 7, based on the report. He died of drowning and blunt force trauma, it said.
Less than two weeks prior to his fatal crash, Halladay had flown the plane under Tampa Bay’s Skyway Bridge, that had a 180-foot vertical clearance over the water, the report added, mentioning recovered GPS data.
Five days later he composed on Twitter,”I keep telling my father flying the Icon A5 low along the water is similar to flying a fighter jet! His reply…. I’m flying a fighter jet!!”
Bell issued advice to its owners fourteen days before Halladay’s accident saying that although low-altitude flying”could be among the most rewarding and exciting types of flying,” it”comes with an inherent set of further risks that require additional considerations.”
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Halladay had approximately 700 hours of flight time after getting his pilot’s license in 2013, a previous report said, such as 51 hours in Icon A5s together with 14 from the plane that crashed.
The report on Wednesday does not offer a last cause of the crash. That is expected to be issued shortly\.
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Halladay won 203 matches and 2 Cy Young awards before retiring 2013. He was inducted posthumously into the Baseball Hall of Fame July.
Halladay broke into the majors with the Blue Jays in 1998, winning one Cy Young Award along with being chosen to six All-Star games during his tenure with the group.
He joined the Phillies after the 2009 season and was picked to 2 All-Star games, winning his second Cy Young Award, in 2010. That year he also pitched a perfect game, the 20th in major league history.
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His no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds at the 2010 National League Division Series was only the next no-hitter ever pitched in the MLB postseason, following just New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series.
During his time at the majors, Halladay was called”Doc,” a reference to this gunslinger Doc Holliday.
Fox News’ Greg Wilson and The Associated Press contributed to the report.
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