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Baseball Hall of Famer Roy Halladay was performing extreme and acrobatic stunts and had a high amount of amphetamines in his system when he fatally crashed his small plane into the water on the west coast of Florida in 2017, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report released Wednesday.

Multiple media outlets, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, reported details of the NTSB’s findings.

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The former star pitcher died of blunt force trauma and drowning, according to the NTSB, when the plane crashed north of the Tampa Bay area on Nov. 7, 2017. He was 40 years old.

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Halladay’s plane, an Icon A5, was in a deep nosedive when it slammed into shallow water in what is known as Sand Bay, according to the report. At least three witnesses expressed shock to NTSB investigators over what they viewed the day of the crash.

The report said Halladay took off behind his home in Odessa, Fla., about 15 minutes before the crash and was flying at 105 mph at just 11 feet above the water when he began performing maneuvers.