Editing Howard Hughes (section)

===Death===
[[File:HowardHughesGravestone.jpg|thumb|right|Hughes' gravestone]]
[[File:Hughes.Family.Gravesite.jpg|thumb|right|Hughes family grave site at [[Glenwood Cemetery (Houston, Texas)|Glenwood Cemetery]]]]
Hughes is reported to have died on April 5, 1976, at 1:27&nbsp;p.m. on board an aircraft, [[Learjet]] 24B N855W, owned by Robert Graf and piloted by Roger Sutton and Jeff Abrams.<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=di04thgoPGMC|title=Hughesworld: The Strange Life and Death of an American Legend|first=Arelo C|last=Sederberg|date=2013|publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-1475969221|via=Google Books}}</ref> He was en route from his penthouse at the [[Hotel Princess Mundo Imperial|Acapulco Princess Hotel]] (now the Princess Mundo Imperial) in Mexico to [[the Methodist Hospital]] in Houston.<ref>{{cite web |title=Howard Hughes |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Howard-Hughes |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |access-date=December 4, 2019}}</ref>

<!-- After receiving a call, his senior counsel, [[Frank P. Morse]], ordered his staff to get his body on a plane and return him to the United States. It was common that foreign countries would hold a corpse as ransom so that an estate could not be settled. Morse ordered the pilots to announce Hughes's death once they entered U.S. [[airspace]].-->His reclusiveness and possibly his drug use made him practically unrecognizable. His hair, beard, fingernails, and toenails were long—his tall {{convert|6|ft|4|in|cm|abbr=on}} frame now weighed barely {{convert|90|lb|kg}}, and the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] had to use [[fingerprint]]s to conclusively identify the body.<ref>Hack 2002, pp. 16–18.</ref> Howard Hughes' alias, John T. Conover, was used when his body arrived at a morgue in Houston on the day of his death.<ref>[http://www.hulu.com/watch/71033/inside-howard-hughes-revealed#s-p1-so-i0 "Howard Hughes Revealed".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907015735/http://www.hulu.com/watch/71033/inside-howard-hughes-revealed#s-p1-so-i0|date=September 7, 2009}} ''hulu.com'', via National Geographic Channel, ''Inside'' (series), Season 7, episode 2. Retrieved: September 24, 2009.</ref>

An [[autopsy]] recorded [[renal failure|kidney failure]] as the cause of death.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Dennis|last=Breo|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20074229,00.html|title=Howard Hughes' Doctor Gives a Chilling Description of His Strange Patient's Final Hours|magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]|location=New York City|date=July 30, 1979|access-date=January 18, 2015|archive-date=May 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160518172046/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20074229,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In an eighteen-month study investigating Hughes' drug abuse for the estate, it was found that "someone administered a deadly injection of the painkiller to this comatose man&nbsp;... obviously needlessly and almost certainly fatal".<ref>Brown and Broeske 1996, p. 457</ref> He suffered from [[malnutrition]] and was covered in [[Pressure ulcer|bedsores]]. While his kidneys were damaged, his other internal organs, including his brain, which had no visible damage or illnesses, were deemed perfectly healthy.<ref name=PPM.Tennant/> [[X-ray]]s revealed five broken-off [[hypodermic needle]]s in the flesh of his arms.<ref name=PPM.Tennant/> To inject codeine into his muscles, Hughes had used glass syringes with metal needles that easily became detached.<ref name=PPM.Tennant/>

Hughes is buried next to his parents at [[Glenwood Cemetery (Houston, Texas)|Glenwood Cemetery]] in Houston.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eaa.org/eaa/news-and-publications/eaa-news-and-aviation-news/bits-and-pieces-newsletter/04-12-2017-howard-hughes-and-his-mysterious-fake-death |title=Howard Hughes and His Mysterious Fake Death |last=Lawrence |first=Patrick |date=April 2017 |publisher=[[EAA AirVenture Oshkosh]] |access-date=April 28, 2021}}</ref>