Another 20 people were left alive, miraculously, including the rest of the group. The singer and leader, the immeasurable in all respects Ronnie Van Zant, the recently joined and exceptional guitarist Steve Gaines and Steve’s showgirl and sister Cassie Gaines, as well as the road manager, the pilot and also the co-pilot of the plane, have died. It was a hit never seen in the history of Rock. That same plane had been rejected by Aerosmith shortly before as the person responsible for examining it decided that it was not safe to travel. They wanted to rent and even buy (they were selling very well) a plane so that they could move from one concert to another more comfortably than in vans or coaches.īut the budget was limited and they decided to rent a Convair 240 from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, in Louisiana. On October 20, 1977, a plane crashed in a heavily wooded area of southeastern Mississippi. The music obviously did not die, but 18 years later another equally tragic episode happened. He had said it many times, as loud and clear as when, the group met to decide if they would continue the tour of ’77 traveling in an ancient Convair that shortly before had rejected Aerosmith, settled the discussion saying “I only know that if the time has come to leave, it has come, so” … So that October 20, 24 passengers, including members of the group and people close, got on the plane at Greenville airport bound for nowhere.Īerosmith Would Have Shared The Same Fate Ronnie Van Zant, leader of Lynyrd Skynyrd was clear that he would not reach 30. Ronnie Van Zant Predicted He Won’t Reach 30 A plane crashed after taking off, and in the accident died, in addition to the pilot, three prominent musicians to a greater and lesser extent from the scene of the time, none other than the mythical Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens (the author of “La Bamba”). The tragic Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash is the subject of a documentary titled Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash, which premiered in February of 2020.The phrase “the day the music died”, a phrase taken from the song “American Pie” by Don McLean, refers to the tragic plane crash that occurred on February 3, 1959, in Clear Lake, Iowa (United States). The group have continued on in various lineups ever since. The tragic crash and its aftermath derailed Lynyrd Skynyrd's career for a decade, but the band reunited in 1987, with Ronnie Van Zant's younger brother Johnny joining Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson, Pyle and guitarist Ed King - who had left the band two years before the crash - as their new lead singer. The original cover for Street Survivors depicted the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd engulfed in flames, and MCA subsequently recalled it out of respect for those who had died and their families. Drummer Artimus Pyle and two crew members managed to crawl from the wreckage of the aircraft and hiked through the woods until they waved down a local farmer, who sent for help. The other band members and members of the road crew suffered devastating injuries. Skynyrd lead singer Ronnie Van Zant died on impact, along with guitarist Steve Gaines, vocalist Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray. The pilots tried to land on a small airstrip, but the bottom of the airplane clipped some trees, and the aircraft went down in a remote wooded area. Lynyrd Skynyrd were flying from Greenville, S.C., to Baton Rouge, La., on tour when their plane reportedly ran out of fuel toward the end of the flight.
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