AI Autopsy Inconclusive

The autopsy ruled out foul play or trauma, but it will take 60-90 days before the cause of death can be determined. According to the Honolulu Star Advertiser, no cause of death can be determined until lab results on test are returned.

Irons, 32, was found dead on Tuesday morning at the Grand Hyatt Hotel at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport after missing a flight home. He had withdrawn from the 2010 Rip Curl Pro Search in Puerto Rico because he was suffering from dengue fever, according to ASP officials.

According to the newspaper, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office said his "death was being investigated as a possible overdose because authorities found what they believe was methadone inside a prescription vial for another medication on the nightstand in Irons' room. Other medications were also found on the nightstand".

Mike Floyd, the medical examiner's chief forensic death investigator, told reporters that no cause of death can be determined until the tests are finished.

"Just because we find things at the scene doesn't mean they are related to the death," he said. "When the lab tests come back, we will have the answers."

The Honolulu Star Advertiser quoted Andy's father, Phil, as saying the release of information about drugs found his son's hotel room was tarnishing the surfer's reputation, and that the cause of death was dengue fever.

"Irons said he is angry that his ailing son was allowed to leave Puerto Rico on Sunday and even angrier that he was not allowed to board a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Hawaii on Monday. The elder Irons said someone at the airport should have given his son medical attention or called relatives," he was quoted as saying.

He was angry that Andy was turned down when he tried to get on a plane to Hawaii. "Instead of calling me or his wife or putting him in a hospital, they sent him off and he was by himself and he ends up going to a hotel and dying," he told the paper.