Randy rhoads funeral
In the plane were year-old Rhoads , year-old pilot Andrew Aycock and year-old band seamstress Rachel Youngblood. They had died after the Ozzy band's tour bus pulled up to the famed airstrip often used by celebrities, en route to their next gig. NET : "You hear people say things like, 'Oh, if Randy hadn't got on that plane, he'd be still with us,' and blah, blah, blah.
And 'if' is a little word with such a big meaning. When your number's up… As my grandfather used to say, 'If I knew where I was gonna die, I wouldn't go there. And that was Randy 's time. And as sad and tragic as it was, it is what it is, and nothing can change it. Bob went on to share his theory of what happened that fateful day to cause the plane crash that resulted in the deaths of all three people on board.
He said: "In my personal view, I think that Rachel , the wardrobe lady, seamstress that was in the plane with Aycock and Randy , I think she had a heart attack, and the autopsy proved that she had had a heart attack. It was a dual-control plane. I think she had a heart attack, stomped on the dual control, sent the plane plummeting.
Those planes with a V tail like that are very hard to pull out of a dive.
Randy rhoads death
And I think that's what happened. I don't think that they were buzzing the bus that close like that. And I don't think Aycock was out of his mind on cocaine or anything like that. I think Rachel had a heart attack and she sent the plane plummeting and he couldn't pull it out of the dive and it just clipped the bus and bang, it's all over… I think it was [a] single-engine [plane].