Death of Billy Mays – Plane Related?

Billy Mays, the spokesmen for OxiClean, was found dead yesterday morning in his Florida home. Mays’s unmistaken voice and character on-screen made him one of the world’s most memorable, and favorite, TV salesmen. Mays, just 50 years old, was on-board US Airways flight 1241 from Philadelphia to Tampa on Saturday night. The aircraft’s nose landing-gear front tires blew, causing the nose of the airplane to strike the runway. The impact caused items in the overhead bins to shift out of the bins and onto the heads and laps of helpless passengers – Billy Mays was among them.

Billy was interviewed shortly after landing, “All of a sudden as we hit you know it was just the hardest hit, all the things from the ceiling started dropping. It hit me on the head, but I got a hard head.”

So far, this believed to be the leading reason why Billy Mays has died. Interestingly enough, I recently wrote a post about a lawmaker who introduced a bill to limit the size of carry-on items for safety reasons. I disagreed with the law proposal, siding with airlines, but it is a news story such as this that impacts all of the viewpoints on the legislative proposal.