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Is it true: Aaliyah 2001 plane-crash cover-up claims?

Debunked5% confidence

No — this has been debunked.

NTSB investigation: probable cause was weight overload (approximately 700 lbs over maximum certified takeoff weight) and pilot Luis Morales III, who was not rated for the Cessna 402B type and whose post-mortem toxicology showed cocaine and alcohol. No forensic evidence of sabotage. No documentary, testimonial, or institutional evidence of orchestrated killing. Cover-up claims directly contradict the authoritative accident record.

The claim

R&B singer Aaliyah Dana Haughton and eight others died when a Cessna 402B crashed shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport in the Bahamas on 25 August 2001. The National Transportation Safety

Key evidence

NTSB: weight overload as probable cause

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