Mike Smith Cause Of Death: What happened to TV presenter Mike Smith?

Michael George Smith was an English television and radio presenter, racing driver, pilot and businessman.

During the 1980s, he co-hosted BBC TV’s Breakfast Time and was among the rotating presenters of the music show Top of the Pops, broadcast on BBC One.

He was born on 23 April 1955, in Romford, Essex, England.

Smith attended Ballyholme Primary School in Bangor, Northern Ireland in the early 1960s due to his father being relocated to Belfast by his employer, the Ford Motor Company.

Having spent a short period at Bangor Grammar School, Smith attended King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, where he was the resident DJ at the school Friday night sixth form disco.

He married Sarah Greene in 1989, soon after their 1988 helicopter crash.

He and his then-girlfriend Sarah Greene were injured on 10 September 1988 when the Robinson R22 Beta helicopter he was piloting, bearing the personal registration G-SMIF, crashed in Gloucestershire.

Even though both passengers survived, Sarah broke both legs and an arm, and Smith suffered a broken back and ankle.

In 2004, Smith founded Flying TV, a company providing aerial filming services to broadcasters.