Ketamine in system of hot air balloon pilot involved in fatal crash was from resuscitation attempts, updated report says

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Ketamine in system of hot air balloon pilot involved in fatal crash was from resuscitation attempts, updated report says

By Eric Levenson and Cindy von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — The pilot of a hot air balloon that crashed in Arizona in January, leaving four people dead, had high levels of the psychedelic drug ketamine in his blood system, according to a forensic examination report from the Pinal County Medical Examiner’s Office. The autopsy report initially said Cornelius van der Walt, 37, had no reported prescription for ketamine, and the drug was not used during resu…