CNN is now reporting that the cornoer has cited heart disease as the primary cause. But I think they will be checking into it further. Seems clear to me that if your hit hard in the head by something, a few hours later you dont feel well and are complaining of being "groggy" and a few hours after that your dead, these things seem to be connected. Could be that the hit to the hit knocked something loose like a blood clot, it then went to the heart (he was overweight, so heart issues is not out of the question) and caused a blockage.
The very same thing almost happened to Phil Harris (captain of F/V Cornelia Marie). The ship took a very hard rouge wave one night, he was thrown very hard up against the wall. This knocked a blood clot from his leg loose, then it went up into his heart, got passed that and ended up in his lungs. Had it stopped in this heart it would have been lights out. People who sit a lot need to watch out for PAD (Peripheral vascular disease). People who sit a lot and people who fly a lot (flying is especially bad, the lower air pressure and the hours of sitting can cause the clots to form)
ANd it looks like the airline that Billy was on that night is just BEGGING to get its ass sued. They claimed he did not have his seat belt on, then they retracted that claim. Since they could not prove he did not have his belt on or not.
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