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The aircraft was a 95-seat, twin-jet engine Douglas DC-9-30 with tail registration N97S. The airliner's crew was Captain Frank Abbot (47), First Officer Jerry Smith (28), plus two flight attendants. All were qualified for the flight. This flight was the only flight that year for the Marshall University football team. [5]
On the evening of November 14, 1970, Southern Airways Flight 932, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 chartered by Marshall University to transport the Thundering Herd football team back to Huntington, West Virginia following their 17–14 defeat to the East Carolina University Pirates, clips trees on a ridge just one mile short of the runway at Tri-State Airport in Ceredo, West Virginia, and crashes ...
The team played its home games at Fairfield Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia. On November 14, Southern Airways Flight 932, which was chartered by the school to fly the Thundering Herd football team, coaches, and fans to Kinston, North Carolina for a game against the East Carolina Pirates and back to Huntington, crashed on approach to Tri ...
En route back to Huntington, West Virginia, Southern Airways Flight 932 clipped some trees on approach to Tri-State Airport, and the plane crashed nearly vertically into a ravine short of the runway. All 75 people on board were killed, including 37 players and five of the eight coaches of the team.
West Virginia football announced a coaching change Sunday, as it fired Neal Brown after finishing 6-6 in his sixth season with the Mountaineers.. Brown, whose buyout was set at $9.775 million ...
Rickey Dale Tolley (January 6, 1940 – November 14, 1970) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Marshall University during the 1969 and 1970 seasons. He died in the 1970 plane crash that killed all of the crew and passengers, including most of the Marshall football team and coaching staff and several team ...
For information on all Southern Virginia University sports, see Southern Virginia Knights for football see Southern Virginia Knights football. The Southern Virginia Knights football team has had 6 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 2003. [1] The current coach is Edwin Mulitalo who first took the position for the 2018 season. [2]
Marshall University football head coach Southern Airways Flight 932: Huntington, West Virginia: Descent below Minimum Descent Altitude during a nonprecision approach under adverse operating conditions, without visual contact with the runway environment. [122] Peter Tomarken: United States 2006 Former game show host, Press Your Luck: Beechcraft ...