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Three members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a Mississippi plane crash
History.Com(This Day in History) ^ | 10/20/2017 | staff

Posted on 10/20/2017 7:06:42 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

In the summer of 1977, members of the rock band Aerosmith inspected an airplane they were considering chartering for their upcoming tour—a Convair 240 operated out of Addison, Texas. Concerns over the flight crew led Aerosmith to look elsewhere—a decision that saved one band but doomed another. The aircraft in question was instead chartered by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, who were just setting out that autumn on a national tour that promised to be their biggest to date. On this day in 1977, however, during a flight from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s tour plane crashed in a heavily wooded area of southeastern Mississippi during a failed emergency landing attempt, killing band-members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines as well as the band’s assistant road manager and the plane’s pilot and co-pilot. Twenty others survived the crash.

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To: fedupjohn

Yes,I was educated later,as your folks were.

By the way,I was in my car going to pick up an 11 year old daughter from day camp when I heard that Elvis had died.

When she got in the car I told her that Elvis Presley had died.

She answered,”Who?”

Also was in 1977———bad year.

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61 posted on 10/20/2017 8:24:47 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Kid Shelleen

I was knocking around in the boondocks of Thailand (Peace Corps).


62 posted on 10/20/2017 8:25:09 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: cherry

Thurman Munson - late Spring, weekend afternoon. Driving around with my pals in one of their Dad’s Ford sedan. Broke over the radio on the Reds game 700 WLW. Marty Brennaman and Joe Nuxhall. Remember it well.


63 posted on 10/20/2017 8:27:31 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Beer! Because you can't drink bacon!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I was at the University of Idaho. Heard the news from my roommate. No one in our circle of friends were big fans so it really didn’t have a profound effect on anyone.


64 posted on 10/20/2017 8:29:36 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: Rebelbase

what I have heard, was the fuel gauges did not work, one of the reasons aerosmith pilots turned it down. the pilots had to literally use a stick, to measure fuel level before each flight. one of the engines was in poor condition,and to keep it running, pilots had to run it with rich mixuture of gas., causing flames to occasionaly blow out the back of the motor. pilots apparently did not take into consideration the high rate of fuel burned, due to this defective enginge, and they ran out of gas. paid for it with their lives.


65 posted on 10/20/2017 8:30:02 AM PDT by tm61 (Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

1. If they died during the summer, today cannot be the 40th anniversary.

2. I was a HS sophomore. Didn’t give a damn about Southern Rock or LS, because I didn’t know that either existed. That changed when I went to college 2 years later, and I haven’t looked back. My favorite song is “Sweet Home Alabama” (even though I’ve only traveled through it a couple of times)...

“Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth”


66 posted on 10/20/2017 8:33:42 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: BenLurkin

“Masters” that is.

(How was I to know that be able to spell was important?)


67 posted on 10/20/2017 8:34:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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cr@p! "Being able to spell..."

(Need another pot of coffee)

68 posted on 10/20/2017 8:37:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Where were you '77?

No idea - it wasn't all that memorable an event.

69 posted on 10/20/2017 8:38:17 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Kid Shelleen

</I>” Where were you ‘77?”

Waiter @ probably one of the best Banquet facilities in the US. I Came in the kitchen and the dishwashers and like staff always had W*** blaring as the ran it. The DJ got serious and he gave a somber message about the crash. I think the dishwasher guys might have even turned off the dishwasher. Silence, we were all stunned...


70 posted on 10/20/2017 8:43:10 AM PDT by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry of Men!....)
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To: Kid Shelleen

On board the USS AMERICA somewhere in the Med Sea. I was walking across the aft mess decks and heard it either announced over the 1MC or AFR over the ships radio system.


71 posted on 10/20/2017 9:00:22 AM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Kid Shelleen

I was at sea. Back then the Navy didn’t have much in the way of communication with a ship at sea except for trivia such as we’re at war and stuff. Found out about it when we hit Hawaii.


72 posted on 10/20/2017 9:09:50 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: dfwgator

Dropped acid, Blue Oyster Cult concert, fourteen years old,
And I thought them lasers were a spider chasing me.
On my way home, got pulled over in Rogersville Alabama,
With a half-ounce of weed and a case of Sterling Big Mouth.
My buddy Gene was driving, he just barely turned sixteen.
And I’d like to say, “I’m sorry”, but we lived to tell about it
And we lived to do a whole lot more crazy, stupid, ****.

And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Molly Hatchet
With .38 Special and the Johnny Van Zant Band.


73 posted on 10/20/2017 10:07:14 AM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: Blue House Sue

Gimme back my bullets
Put ‘em back where they belong
Ain’t foolin’ around, ‘cause I done had my fun
Ain’t gonna see no more damage done
Gimme back, gimme back my bullets
Oh put ‘em back where they belong
Gimme back my bullets


74 posted on 10/20/2017 10:11:10 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.Does the Government)
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To: WVMnteer
My buddy Gene was driving, he just barely turned sixteen.

Hopefully he didn't say, "Oak tree, you're in my way."

75 posted on 10/20/2017 10:13:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

There were three Van Zant bands alone - Skynyrd, 38 Special, and Johnny Van Zant Band.


76 posted on 10/20/2017 10:13:51 AM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: Blue House Sue; Darksheare
Hand guns are made for killin’ They ain’t no good for nothin’ else And if you like to drink your whiskey You might even shoot yourself So why don’t we dump ‘em people To the bottom of the sea Before some ol’ fool come around here Wanna shoot either you or me

You just made my radar. That is not a good thing.

77 posted on 10/24/2017 10:05:00 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Lazamataz

I quoted a Lynyrd Skynyrd song on a thread about Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Thus, those are not my views, but rather song lyrics that indicate that the songwriter may have held an anti-2A view.


78 posted on 10/24/2017 10:30:50 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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