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John Denver died at age 53 when the experimental homemade aircraft he was piloting crashed into California's Monterey Bay on October 12, 1997. His death brought a tragic end to a joyful career and humanitarian spirit— but it did not put an end to his legacy.
On October 12, 1997, songwriter, actor and humanitarian John Denver dies when his experimental amateur aircraft crashes into Monterey Bay on the California coast.
An avid pilot, Denver was killed at age 53 in a single-fatality crash while piloting a recently purchased light plane in 1997. Early life.
John Denver died tragically in a plane crash on October 12, 1997. He was survived by his brother Ron, mother Erma and three children, Zak, Anna Kate and Jesse Belle.
A longtime aviator, Denver died on October 12, 1997, when the plane that he was piloting went down over Monterey Bay, California, killing him instantly.
Owner Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager in 1986 made the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world in an experimental plane named Voyager. Denver had two drunken-driving arrests in Colorado and...
In the end, he died in a setting straight out of his music, soaring over the mountains, sea and sky before his brand-new experimental plane crashed Sunday in picturesque Monterey Bay. He was 53.
PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. — John Denver, the earnest “country boy” who soared to fame in the 1970s with sunny, folksy, just-this-side-of-corny songs such as “Rocky Mountain High,” died when an...
John Denver, the singer and songwriter who was the voice of wholesome sincerity and simple country pleasures in the 1970's, died on Sunday afternoon when a light plane he was piloting crashed...
John Denver (born December 31, 1943, Roswell, New Mexico, U.S.—died October 12, 1997, Monterey Bay, California, U.S.) was an American singer and songwriter who was known for his wholesome, sentimental music that extolled nature’s and life’s simple pleasures. He was one of the most popular performers of the 1970s.