![]() ![]() ![]() The group was en route from a Wednesday night performance in Greenville South Carolina to a Friday night concert before an expected crowd of 10,000 persons at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. It sounded like wrinkling metal" he said. "When it hit the ground it was a deep rumble, like it was underground. Johnny Mote, who lives near the crash site close to the Mississippi-Louisiana border, said the plane "sounded like aĬar skidding in gravel" as it clipped the trees. "We were actually standing on people to get others out". Me, get me." said Constable Gerrald Wall. "They were all in front of the plane and they were all shouting, get me out, get The impact, which triggered no fire, tossed other passengers toward the front of the aircraft. of Addison Texas, came down on its nose southwest of McComb, twisting the cockpit to the left, and threw seven or eight persons to the ground when it split open at about the middle of the fuselage, it was believed. The injured, some of them also in critical condition, included members of the group's road crew and a cameraman, said officials of Southwest Mississippi Medical Center. Six other members of the hard rock band were injured, two hurt critically and four hospitalized in stable condition. Pilot Walter Wiley McCreary and co-pilot William John Gray, both of Dallas Texas, and Dean Kilpatrick, assistant road manager for the group, also died officials said. Singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and vocalist Cassie Gaines, Gaines sister, medical authorities said. The propeller-driven Convair 240 skidded across tree tops for about 100 yards, then slammed into a swampy area and split open about eight miles short of McComb Airport after reporting it was having fuel trouble or was running low on fuel", an Air Traffic Controller reported. Six persons including the lead singer of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed and 20 were injured. Thursday in a wooded area of Amite County near Gillsburg. Gillsburg Plane Crash Kills Six, Hurts 20 Including Rock SingersĪ twin-engine airplane, apparently out of fuel, crashed before 7p.m. The real-time story from that night from the (local newspaper) Enterprise Journal: "Sweet Home Alabama", "Don't Ask Me No Questions" Rebel flags galore: Here, they perform on television in 1974: Lynyrd Skynyrd live, full set, Knebworth, England, July 4th, 1976: If you're in the neighborhood, stop on by. Some bands here in Oxford are staging a big tribute show of Skynyrd songs tonight. Six died on impact, including Ronnie Van Zandt, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines of the band. 35 years ago tonight, the airplane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed near Gillsburg, Mississippi. ![]()
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