1977 Convair CV-300 crash

When

20 Oct 1977

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

31.07° N, 90.60° W

Description

1977 plane crash, killed three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd

Deaths

6

Injured

20

1977 aviation accident in Mississippi, USA

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.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash outside Gillsburg, Mississippi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en las afueras de Gillsburg (Misisipi) mueren tres miembros de la banda de rock Lynyrd Skynyrd (el vocalista principal y fundador Ronnie Van Zant, el…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page