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On March 5, 1963, American country music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins were killed in an airplane crash near Camden, Tennessee, United States, along with pilot Randy Hughes. The accident occurred as the three artists were returning home to Nashville, Tennessee, after performing in Kansas City, Kansas.
Others killed in the crash were pilot Robert N. Elliott, Croce's bandmate Maury Muehleisen, comedian George Stevens, manager and booking agent Kenneth D. Cortese, and road manager Dennis Rast. Beechcraft E18S: Natchitoches, Louisiana: Pilot's failure to see the obstruction due to physical impairment and because fog reduced his vision.
Coy swore off skydiving immediately after the incident. [32] Skydivers conducted memorial jumps in 1968 and 1969, both times first throwing a wreath out of a plane and then intentionally jumping into Lake Erie. [54] A Springfield News-Sun article about the 1969 jump notes that the skydivers wore light clothing and flotation devices. [55]
Jenny Blalock, 45, whose TNFlygirl account on YouTube has 15.7K followers and 139 videos, and her father, James Blalock Jr., 78, died in the crash. Here's what the NTSB report on the crash said.
The crash results in 19 deaths out of 21 passengers. [61] It was the deadliest ballooning disaster in history, surpassing the 1989 Alice Springs hot air balloon crash in Australia. [62] [63] June 29 - An in-air collision between a glider and a Cessna 150 killed four people and a dog near Whistler, B.C. [64]
A small plane crashed next to an interstate highway in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday night, killing all five people on board, police said. The single-engine plane crashed close to a Costco store ...
Officials on Sunday released the name of a pilot who died in a skydiving flight after her passengers jumped from the aircraft near the Niagara Falls. Melanie Georger, 26, was the only person on ...
August 16 — A pilot was killed when his Fouga Magister crashed into the Mediterranean sea during an airshow in Le Lavandou, southern France. [1] July 12 — A military pilot was killed when his M-346 Bielik crashed into the ground during rehearsal for the Gdynia Naval Aviation Brigade's 30th Anniversary event in Gdynia, Poland. The pilot was ...