Rock’s First Tragedy: When Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper Died

UltimateClassicRock ^ | 2/3/22 | David Lifton

[dinodino]

Yes, that’s the one.

[weezel]

AND except for losing a toss of a coin, Waylon Jennings would have been on there.

[JimRed]

Students from Concordia college were they in good numbers. The college did not allow dances to be held on campus.

A Christian school?

[dfwgator]

[Maine Mariner]

Yes, Lutheran!

[Maine Mariner]

Evangelical Lutheran Church

[duckman]

I was in a Biology class dissecting a frog when a classmate walked by and showed the class the front page of a newspaper with their crash posted, think it was the Daily News. The whole class became very sad.

[sanjuanbob]

Thanks for the link. I first remember hearing Dion on a cool transistor radio in the late 50s. Here we are 60 years later and I had no idea he was still making music. What a nice break from Covid, Biden and China.

[markman46]

3 days before Iowa they played in the Duluth national guard Armory.

[Does so]

Beechcraft Bonanza was the Dentist Killer. (What I'd heard).

One buzzed his own house frequently. I haven't seen it in a year.

[Does so]

Not sure where I got Cessna 172, as Free Republic is usually my only source of news.

A rescue of a Cessna 172 pilot from an oncoming train was in the news recently, but VFR/IFR details of the Buddy Holly crash were included in what I had read.

Maybe a previous February 3... FR thread?

[deek69]

Thank you. By the way do those planes have a good record?

[dinodino]

They used to have a bad record…issues with inflight breakup, etc. However, nowadays, all of the V-tail Bonanzas flying have been reinforced, so it’s no longer an issue. Ruddervator flutter was not the reason for this crash, though.

[deek69]

Thank you for the insight.