Roy Halladay's Icon A5 down off of Tampa Coast

[ktup-flyer]

1 dead is all they're reporting. Person hasn't been ID'd yet. Hoping he wasn't in it. RIP
http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/report-small-aircraft-down-in-gulf-of-mexico

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Factual report now available at https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/R...tID=20171107X60614&AKey=1&RType=HTML&IType=FA .

He had 4 controlled substances plus an anti-depressant and muscle relaxant in his system.

Performing maneuvers between 5 and 300 feet above the water.

What a tragedy that such a successful fellow felt compelled to act like this. Very sad.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

It's very sad. Halladay was a true talent, and apparently a good guy. It's a pity that our voracious appetite for prescription drugs and some need for a different kind of high cost a family their husband, father and son.

This is pure speculation, but that behavior strikes me as a person that was desperate about something in his life - bad feelings that he just couldn’t deal with. I do wonder if we may gradually hear more about some trauma.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

In controlled, proscribed doses and which you have to report each use to your flight doc, which is documented.

They're not just out there freely blazing on speed in a combat zone.

I believe there were first used by both the Axis and Allies for this purpose in WWII.