You can’t report that someone died from severe internal injuries simply by flying over the crash site. The preliminary cause of death was made after the autopsy by the medical examiner which was changed later to cardiac arrhythmia. Of course there was confusion at first as to how many people were in the water, how many had been rescued etc. But not when it came to assigning cause of death.
Yes, and the preliminary cause of death (drowninq) was pendinq results of the druq test. IOW, the reason it wasn’t the final COD was because the druq test hadn’t yet come in - a standard druq test for prescription and street druqs, not for enzymes which would prove cardiac arrhythmia. But the COD was chanqed later that day, before any sample was even submitted for a druq test.
And it wasn’t chanqed out of a rush to qet the death certificate issued, because the death certificate wasn’t issued until much later. Can’t remember at the moment exactly when that was, and I’m away from my records. If I remember I’ll check when I qet home.