Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 passenger aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi, United States.Chartered by the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from L & J Company of Addison, Texas, it was flying from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, crashing near its destination.
Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash: near Gillsburg: Mississippi: Convair CV-240: The aircraft crashed due to fuel exhaustion caused by the crew's failure to adequately monitor its fuel. Lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines died in the crash. April 4, 1977 72 22 22 Southern Airways Flight 242: New Hope: Georgia: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31
Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane went down in a wooded, swampy area in Gillsburg, Mississippi, on Oct. 20, 1977.
Gillsburg was the location of the October 20, 1977 plane crash that killed three members of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd.A rental plane carrying the band between shows from Greenville, South Carolina, to LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was low on fuel and crashed in a swamp in Gillsburg. [2]
Gary Rossington, founding Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist, dies at 71. The legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd, four decades after plane crash tragedy. Judge blocks former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer’s planned biopic ...
What turned out to be the final tour of the original band had the ominous title, "Tour of the Survivors", and truly was as three band members were killed in a plane crash on October 20, 1977, the day after their show on October 19, 1977, in Greenville, South Carolina, which was the fourth date of their forty-five day tour.
Steven Earl Gaines (September 14, 1949 – October 20, 1977) was an American musician. He is best known as a guitarist and backing vocalist with rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1976 until his death in the October 1977 airplane crash that claimed other band members and crew.
Loss of control in low visibility; wife Gwen Shamblin Lara also died in this accident; see 2021 Percy Priest Lake Cessna Citation crash: Eugène Lefebvre: France 1909 First person to die while piloting a powered airplane and the second person to be killed in an airplane crash Wright Model A: Port-Aviation (Juvisy), France Crashed from 20 feet