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At 7:36 pm on November 14, 1970, the aircraft crashed into a hill just short of the Tri-State Airport, killing all 75 people on board, including 37 members of the Marshall University football team, eight members of the coaching staff, 25 boosters, two pilots, two flight attendants, and a charter coordinator. [1]
Memorial at Spring Hill Cemetery in Huntington, West Virginia to the victims of the 1970 plane crash. The 1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team was an American football team that represented Marshall University as an independent during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.
Marshall University: Ashes to Glory is a 2000 documentary film about the November 14, 1970 Marshall University plane crash that killed 75 people (including 37 members of the 1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, most of its coaching staff, and a number of school officials and Huntingtonians), and the efforts of new head coach Jack Lengyel and the coaching staff (which included members ...
Finished in 1972, the fountain was built in memory of the Marshall Plane Crash on November 14 1970, victims included 37 Marshall football players, 9 coaches and administrators, 25 fans and air crew of 5. [5] [6] [7]
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November 14, 1970 75 0 0 Southern Airways Flight 932: Huntington: West Virginia: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31: The aircraft descended below the minimum descent altitude during approach and crashed short of the runway. The charter flight was carrying the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team. October 2, 1970 31 9 9
14 players and coach Ben Wilson killed. One of two planes en route to game vs. Utah State University. Other plane with reserve players and assistant coaches landed safely at Logan, Utah. 14 November 1970: Marshall University: American football: Southern Airways: McDonnell Douglas DC-9: Wayne County, West Virginia, United States: 75: 46
On November 14, 1970, Southern Airways Flight 932, which was chartered by the school to fly the 1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team and fans to Greenville, North Carolina for a game against the East Carolina Pirates and back to Huntington, West Virginia, crashed on approach to Tri-State Airport after clipping trees just west of the runway and impacting nose-first into a hollow.