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Two weeks after the crash, Furr and his younger brother Byron were killed in a car accident near Newton, Illinois, leaving the entire 1977 Evansville team dead. [6] After consideration, the rest of the season was cancelled. The "Weeping Basketball" fountain memorial at the University of Evansville, commemorating the Air Indiana Flight 216 crash.
On December 13, 1977, all 14 members of the varsity team and some members of the staff were killed in the Air Indiana Flight 216 crash. [3] The Purple Aces had been travelling to Nashville, Tennessee , to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the Evansville Regional Airport and killed all ...
Coach died and most playing careers ended, from a head-on crash on the Terni–Sulmona railway. Team was relegated and never recovered the second-tier Serie B league. [26] 10 February 1949: Belgian bobsled team: Bobsled: Bobsled: Lake Placid, New York, United States: 1: Max Houben killed in bobsled crash; teammate seriously injured [27] 11 ...
DC plane crash: A timeline of the deadly collision Instead, Gudin said she heard from the mother of one of the other figure skaters aboard the flight that there was a crash. Gudin said they should ...
The wife of a passenger killed in the midair collision between an American Airlines passenger plane and a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in ...
The family of the Delaware skating coach Alexandr Kirsanov was left heartbroken over the loss of their loved one in the deadly midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S ...
Fourteen members of the 1977–78 Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team died in a plane crash on December 13, 1977, along with fifteen others including head coach Bobby Watson. The players killed were: Seniors: Kevin Kingston, John Ed Washington, and Marion Anthony “Tony” Windburn; Juniors: Stephen Miller and Bryan Taylor
A Virginia pilot who devoted his life to rescuing orphaned shelter dogs met a tragic end Sunday when his small plane crashed in the Catskill Mountains — killing him and one of his newly saved pups.