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Pages in category "Musicians killed in aviation accidents or incidents" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Civil Air Patrol was notified of the crash at 4:30 am, and authorities were called to locate the scene of the accident. All five people were pronounced dead on arrival. The autopsy concluded that Vaughan suffered multiple internal injuries and died of exsanguination (bleeding to death) due to blunt trauma of the chest and abdomen.
[a] [1] [2] The event became known as "The Day the Music Died" after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie". At the time, Holly and his band, consisting of Waylon Jennings , Tommy Allsup , and Carl Bunch , were playing on the "Winter Dance Party" tour across the American Midwest .
Aaliyah died in a plane crash in the Bahamas when a small twin-engine Cessna 402B crashed shortly after takeoff. The chartered plane was carrying Aaliyah and eight others, including the singer’s ...
Marília Mendonça, the popular Brazilian singer, has died after a tragic plane crash. She was 26.Mendonça's team confirmed her death in a statement on her social media on Friday. They also ...
American pop singer Ricky Nelson died during the crash-landing of his band’s aircraft on December 31, 1985. The plane, a Douglas DC-3, was brought down mid-flight outside De Kalb, Texas, by a fire that rapidly spread from a suspected faulty in-cabin heater. Nelson and six others—including several band members and his girlfriend—were ...
1956 Eglisau Ilyushin Il-12 plane crash: Jim Croce: United States 1973 Others killed in the crash were pilot Robert N. Elliott, Croce's bandmate Maury Muehleisen, comedian George Stevens, manager and booking agent Kenneth D. Cortese, and road manager Dennis Rast. Beechcraft E18S: Natchitoches, Louisiana
Mendonca's press office said in a statement that her producer, Henrique Ribeiro, aide Abicieli Silveira Dias Filho as well both the pilot and co-pilot of the plane were also killed in the crash ...