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Three days after the album's release, the band's chartered airplane crashed en route to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, killing the pilot, co-pilot, the group's assistant road-manager and three band members (Van Zant, Gaines, and Gaines' older sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines), and severely injuring most who survived the crash.
The plane departed from Baton Rouge, Louisiana and was headed to Louisville, Kentucky when it crashed. A small plane crash killed three people on Wednesday, May 15 in Williamson County.
On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 passenger aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi, United States. Chartered by the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from L & J Company of Addison , Texas , it was flying from Greenville , South Carolina , to Baton Rouge , Louisiana , crashing near its destination.
On June 7, 2013, a Beechcraft Super King Air operated by Osage Air LLC crashed 2.9 miles N of Baton Rouge Int'l Airport shortly after takeoff. Probable causes were the pilot's failure to maintain airspeed and lack of knowledge of the avionics .
According to officials, the Beech V35 single-engine plane had left Baton Rouge, La. and was headed to Louisville, Ky., when it crashed.
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October 20 – A Convair CV-240 chartered by Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes into a heavily wooded swamp in Amite County, Mississippi, United States, while en route from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, due to fuel exhaustion; four of the 24 passengers and both crew members are killed.
While Seal had come to an agreement with the DEA and the Florida drug task force in March 1984, he was still under active investigation by state and federal authorities in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Little Rock, Arkansas.
US Airways Flight 1549 was a regularly scheduled US Airways flight from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte and Seattle, in the United States. On January 15, 2009, the Airbus A320 serving the flight struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia, losing all engine power.
On March 17, 1980, Douglas DC-9-14 N9103 overran the runway while landing in rain at Baton Rouge Ryan Airport (BTR) due to pilot and ATC errors; all 50 on board survived, but the aircraft was written off.
During the long flight, the hijackers threatened to crash the plane into the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, nuclear facilities, insisted on talking with President Richard Nixon, and demanded a ransom of $10 million. Southern Airways was only able to come up with $2 million.