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Before the pilot could turn back toward the McComb-Pike County Airport in nearby McComb, Mississippi, 17 miles behind them, the left engine died and all the band could hear as the plane went into a free-fall at 4,500 feet, was an eerie silence, broken only by the wind. The right engine sputtered throughout the flight and finally died. Band drummer would later say they were flying in a plane “that looked like it belonged to the Clampett family.” Ironically, the band Aerosmith had been considering purchasing the same plane, a 30-year-old Convair CV-240, that Lynyrd Skynyrd was leasing for the tour to promote its fifth album, Street Survivors, released just three days before the crash, but passed on it over safety concerns. The monument is open to the public without charge. McDaniel said the group raised $65,000 to design and erect the monument, which is on private property on Easley Road, off Miss. The project was the brainchild of Bobby McDaniel and other area residents who responded to the report of the crash. Several of the crash survivors attended the ceremony and a Saturday night concert by the tribute band, Nuthin’ Fancy, at Southwest Mississippi Community College in Summit, Miss. Van Zant’s widow, Judy Van Zant, and other relatives of the group’s members, participated in the unveiling of the three laser-etched black granite panels that tell the story of the band, the crash and the effort by Amite County, Miss., rescuers to locate the crash site and get medical help to the crash survivors. Judy Van Zant, widow of Lynyrd Skynyrd band leader Ronnie Van Zant, reads the inscription on a monument Sunday commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the plane crash that killed six people, including Van Zant and two other members of the band. Yesterday, several hundred people gathered for the unveiling of a large MONUMENT honoring members of the group. The crash and death of Van Zant did not generate the headlines it should because the nations was still in a state of disbelief over the death of Elvis Presley just two months earlier but its hard-core fans were stunned at the news.
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The band was on its way from a show in Greenville, South Carolina en route to an engagement at LSU in Baton Rouge. The pilot, co-pilot and sister of one of the band members were also killed. Three members of the band, including Van Zant, were killed 42 years yesterday October 20) when their plane went down near Gillsburg, Mississippi, which abuts the Louisiana-Mississippi line, a few miles north of Greensburg, Louisiana. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida, the hometown of band leader Ronnie Van Zant. teacher, (real name: Leonard Skinner) at Robert E. Of course, I’m referencing one of the greatest Southern Rock Bands of them all: Lynyrd Skynyrd, so named in honor (sort of) of a P.E.
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The titles of their hits are familiar to anyone with a passing knowledge of Southern Rock:Īnd their biggest hit of all: SWEET HOME ALABAMA.