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The Air Indiana Flight 216 crash occurred on December 13, 1977, at 19:22 CST, when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, the Evansville Purple Aces, crashed on takeoff at the Evansville Regional Airport in Evansville, Indiana. The aircraft lost control and crashed shortly after lift-off. [1]
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
University of Evansville: Men's basketball: Air Indiana: DC-3: Evansville, Indiana, United States: 29: 19: Entire team (save one player) and coaching staff, along with members of the press, boosters, and plane crew, are all killed in crash shortly after take-off from Evansville en route to a game against Middle Tennessee State University. The ...
North’s Vanessa Nankwenya (1) drives the ball as the North Huskies play the Lawrence North Cats during the 2022 Evansville North Basketball Showcase at North High School in Evansville, Ind ...
Former Head Coach of University of Evansville Men's Basketball team. David Ragland, former Missouri Southern Lions and Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles men's basketball player. Current Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball head coach. Steven Sater, Tony Award-winning poet and playwright; Randall Shepard, Chief Justice Indiana State Supreme Court
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Robert Lee Watson (August 8, 1942 – December 13, 1977) was an American basketball coach. He was in his first season as a head coach for the Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team when he and his team were killed in the 1977 Air Indiana Flight 216 crash.