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Eight players and three club staff members killed when their plane failed to take off on its third attempt. Of the remaining team, two players received career-ending injuries. [9] 14 August 1958: Egypt national fencing team: Fencing: KLM: Lockheed L-1049H-01-06-162 Super Constellation: Atlantic Ocean off Ireland: 99: 6: Six players killed. 16 ...
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.
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
Jet carrying Gonzaga men's basketball team avoids near collision with Delta plane at Los Angeles airport The incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. local time at Los Angeles International Airport, the ...
The pilot died when a single-engine firefighting aircraft crashed into a Montana reservoir Wednesday afternoon while scooping up water to fight a nearby blaze, officials said. The crash was ...
Two men died Saturday morning after their small plane crashed and burst into flames near a home in Afton, authorities said. Several neighbors reported what sounded like a small explosion about 9: ...
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 ...
The crash was the deadliest single-aircraft accident in United States history to date, and would remain so until the 1979 crash of American Airlines Flight 191. The victims included American Basketball Association player Wendell Ladner, a member of the 1974 champion New York Nets, [4] and Iveson B. Noland, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of ...