Kecelakaan pesawat CV-240 di Mississippi 1977
Tampilan
Ringkasan accident | |
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Tanggal | 20 Oktober 1977 18:52 (Waktu Standar Tengah Amerika Serikat) |
Ringkasan | Kehabisan bahan bakar akibat kelalaian pilot |
Lokasi | Rawa berhutan di Amite County, Mississippi, 8 kilometer timur laut dari Gillsburg 31°04′19″N 90°35′56″W / 31.072°N 90.599°W[1] |
Penumpang | 24 |
Awak | 2 |
Tewas | 6 |
Selamat | 20 |
Jenis pesawat | Convair CV-240[2] |
Operator | L & J Company of Addison, Texas |
Registrasi | N55VM |
Asal | Bandar Udara Internasional Greenville Downtown (Greenville) |
Perhentian | McComb-Pike County Airport, Pike County, Mississippi (pendaratan darurat) |
Tujuan | Bandara Baton Rouge Metropolitan (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
Pada 20 Oktober 1977, sebuah pesawat penumpang Convair CV-240 N55VM kehabisan bahan bakar dan jatuh di daerah berhutan dekat Gillsburg, Mississippi. Disewa oleh grup musik rok Lynyrd Skynyrd dari L&J Company of Addison, Texas, yang menjadi penerbangan akhir dari Greenville, Carolina Selatan, ke Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[3][4]
Vokalis sekaligus anggota pendiri Ronnie Van Zant, gitaris dan vokalis Steve Gaines, vokalis pendukung Cassie Gaines (kakak perempuan Steve), asisten manajer jalan Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, dan kopilot William Gray semuanya tewas akibat kecelakaan itu, dan 20 lainnya selamat.[5]
Lihat pula
[sunting | sunting sumber]Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ "U.S. National Transportation Safety Board 1978" (PDF).
- ^ ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-240 N55VM Gillsburg, MS Diarsipkan 2012-11-05 di Wayback Machine.; Retrieved 9/3/11
- ^ Gwinn, John (October 22, 1977). "Why did plane run out of fuel?". Spartanburg Herald-Journal. (South Carolina). hlm. B1.
- ^ "Rock band leader, five others killed in charter plane crash". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). UPI. October 21, 1977. hlm. 3A.
- ^ "Airplane crash kills members of rock band". The Bulletin. (Bend, Oregon). Associated Press. October 21, 1977. hlm. 8.
Bacaan lebih lanjut
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Brant, Marley (2002). Freebirds: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Story. Billboard Books. ISBN 0-8230-8321-7. Diakses tanggal 2008-10-18.
- Davis, Stephen (1997). Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-380-97594-7. Diakses tanggal 2008-10-18.
Pranala luar
[sunting | sunting sumber]- US NTSB Report on Plane Crash Diarsipkan 2012-11-05 di Wayback Machine.
- The Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash
- Check-Six.com – Lynyrd Skynyrd's Crash – includes full crew and passenger list
- Gillsburg, MS Plane Crash Kills Lynyrd Skynyrd Band Members, Oct 1977
- Official Lynyrd Skynyrd website
- Official Lynyrd Skynyrd History site Diarsipkan 2021-01-26 di Wayback Machine.