FAA -- Billy (Mays) Wasn't Wearing a Seat Belt on Plane

TMZ ^ | 6/28/09

[Erasmus]

A couple of years ago I had some vision anomalies, so they did an MRI of my head. But they didn’t find anything.

[Erasmus]

stunt again. I think they’ve got some indicator lights up front where the flight attendants can see if there are any unbuckled belts.

The only indicator is that the engines won't start.

[Bon mots]

He probably flew up out of his seat and hit his head on the ceiling.

I did once on a flight over the Indian Ocean from Europe to Asia. I was waiting by the door for a rest-room, when we hit totally unexpected turbulence. I hit the ceiling hard, then the floor so hard my legs buckled. It happened in 1/2 second... then the “Fasten Seat Belts” light came on and everyone scurried to their seats and buckled up tight.

It was a very hard hit.

A Japanese lady hit the ceiling so hard she was killed immediately on another flight at about that time.

[sten]

how would it have helped to wear a seat belt, if stuff was falling from above and hitting him on the head?

[Vision]

Is there anything wrong with modern society?

It's perverted.

[WestCoastGal]

Memo to Self: Always go to the hospital for a checkup after a strong blow to the head.

Sorry, Obamacare won’t allow it.

0 says to take a pain pill - that’s all we get

[savedbygrace]

I’m thinking his head hit the bulkhead.

[bondjamesbond]

I’m wondering how a seat belt would have helped him if things were falling and something struck him on the head.

There are two ways to get hit on the head. Either something falls on you, or you bounce up and slam your head into the ceiling. On a hard landing, it could be a little of both.

The seatbelt is there for a reason. When taking off and landing, put the damn thing on. It could save your life. It's just stupid not to have it on.

People think of aircraft as being big, benign, things that always land perfectly. This is true until something goes bad, and then they become hurtling aluminum tubes going 150 miles per hour and slamming into unyielding concrete. When that happens, you want to be strapped down.

[bondjamesbond]

On March 18, 2009, actress Natasha Richardson died as a result of an epidural hematoma sustained two days earlier while skiing in Mont-Tremblant, Québec, Canada. Like many patients, she had a lucid interval where she did not exhibit any symptoms until approximately an hour after her fall when she complained of a headache. By the time she reached medical care, the hematoma had already caused significant damage.

You would think that that case got so much publicity that people would know better. My wife got bumped on the head yesterday by a sign blowing in the wind, and I made good and sure she was feeling well and had no symptoms before we decided that it was nothing. If she gets so much as a headache over the next couple of days, it's off to the emergency room.

[Paleo Conservative]

http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/28/billy-mays-last-interview/

[The Good Doctor]

There are physical findings and conditions which are indications for performing CT scanning after minor head trauma. They are: headache, vomiting, age over 60 years, drug or alcohol intoxication, deficits in short-term memory, physical evidence of trauma above the clavicles, and seizure. The likelihood of significant injury after minor trauma in the absence of the criteria is remote.

Of course these are irrelevant in this day and age in the United States of America. The current criteria for brain CT appears to be showing up in the ER with a bump. It doesn't matter if there are no specific indications. The CT scan will get ordered and completed to cover the practitioner's ass from a law suit should a given patient with significant injury not happen (however rare) to meet the above criteria.

I'll say it again since the "experts" and pundits seem to not notice. The amount of money spent practicing "defensive" medicine is mind-boggling enormous.

[bondjamesbond]

O says take a pain pill. That's all we get

Don't be silly... Cyanide pills will always be available on demand!

[Jotmo]

If you get out of your seat, they will stop the plane and not move until you return to it. Not on the runway of course.

I fly regularly and I have see someone do this only once, and it was a dash to the lavatory. We stayed put on the taxiway 'till the lady got back to her seat.

[Jotmo]

I think they’ve got some indicator lights up front where the flight attendants can see if there are any unbuckled belts. Somehow she knew what was up within a couple of seconds of stupid young man pulling open his belt buckle, because by the time he was actually standing up, she was already back at the rear of the plane.

She was just observant and quick. They have no seat belt indicators.

[Gosh I love this neighborhood]

I would never go without seat belt and wasn’t debating whether to wear one or not. I guess what I meant was, how would a seatbelt stop stuff from falling on his head.

[bondjamesbond]

I guess what I meant was, how would a seatbelt stop stuff from falling on his head.

Gravity is not the major actor here. Inertia is.

If something is falling down while you are bouncing up, the impact is going to be much more severe than if something falls on your head while you are motionless, reletively speaking.

[wideminded]

I’m wondering how a seat belt would have helped him if things were falling and something struck him on the head.

Perhaps he actually struck his head on the ceiling.

[Straight Vermonter]

Head on, apply directly to the forehead.
Head on, apply directly to the forehead.
Head on, apply directly to the forehead.
Head on, apply directly to the forehead.
Head on, apply directly to the forehead.

[rawhide]

In today's news:

Laura Brown, spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said she did not know if Mays was wearing his seat belt on the flight because the FAA was not investigating his death.