According to a new book on the life of legendary singer Aaliyah , the artist was given a sleeping pill and carried onto the aircraft before the fatal 2001 crash in the Bahamas . The report comes from a witness who revealed the details in the book Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah by music journalist Kathy Landoli, the Daily Mail reported . “They took her out of the van; she didn’t even know she was getting boarded on a plane,” Kingsley Russell, who saw Aaliyah shortly before the fateful flight, said. “She went on the airplane asleep.” At the time of the tragedy, Russell's family ran a taxi company in the Abaco Islands. Russell, who was 13 years old at the time, was in the cab as his mom drove the five-time Grammy winner and her team to the airport for their return flight to Miami. Aaliyah, who just finished shooting the music video for her hit single “Rock the Boat,” was apprehensive about boarding the overloaded plane as the team prepared to depart the island. Russell said the...
