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The Air Indiana Flight 216 crash occurred on December 13, 1977, at 19:22 CST, when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, the Evansville Purple Aces, crashed on takeoff at the Evansville Regional Airport in Evansville, Indiana. The aircraft lost control and crashed shortly after lift-off. [1]
Robert Lee Watson (August 8, 1942 – December 13, 1977) was an American basketball coach. He was in his first season as a head coach for the Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team when he and his team were killed in the 1977 Air Indiana Flight 216 crash.
University of Evansville: Men's basketball: Air Indiana: DC-3: Evansville, Indiana, United States: 29: 19: Entire team (save one player) and coaching staff, along with members of the press, boosters, and plane crew, are all killed in crash shortly after take-off from Evansville en route to a game against Middle Tennessee State University. The ...
Walters was hired after the entire 1977–78 Evansville team perished in a plane crash during the season in December 1977. Walters is a graduate of Illinois State University and achieved a record of 202–56 in the junior college ranks at the College of DuPage prior to accepting the Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball job.
The 1977–78 Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represented the University of Evansville during the 1977–78 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.They were coached by first-time head coach Bobby Watson after the departure of Arad McCutchan, who had spent the previous 31 years as coach of the program.
Witnesses said Lee exceeded speeds of 100 mph before the fatal crash. ... a deadly multi-car collision on the Lloyd Expressway that killed 21-year-old University of Evansville student Muhammad ...
Three University of Oklahoma students were killed in a crash as they returned Friday ... and passengers Gavin A. Short, 19, of Grayslake, Illinois; and Drake H. Brooks, 22, of Evansville, Indiana. ...
David Furr, who was a member of the 1977–78 Purple Aces squad, did not die in the crash, as he was out for the season with an ankle injury and thus was not on the plane that day. However, only just two weeks later after the crash, Furr and his younger brother Byron were killed in a car accident near Newton, Illinois , leaving the entire 1977 ...