Air Jamaica pilot died of heart attack days after last flight

Posted by Yardie Luke on May 5, 2010 under Famous Jamaicans | Comments are off for this article

Apparently the impending sale of Air Jamaica was too stressful for Air Jamaica pilot and past president of the Jamaican Airline Pilots’ Association (JALPA) Captain Russell Capleton.

On the Tuesday night May 4, Captain Capleton died of a massive heart attack, just four days after his position was made redundant from the company he served for the last 30 years.

Just days earlier he had flown his last Air Jamaica flight from Philadelphia to Kingson.