How many musicians have died in plane crashes? Could you name some?

Question

Wow... One of the main reasons why I won't set foot in a plane... ever!

Answer 1

too many to count

Answer 2

buddy Holly

John Denver

Ricky Nelson

Patsy Cline

Richie Valens

Big Bopper

Buddy Holly

1/2 of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd

John Denver

Glenn Miller

Aaliyah

Reba McEntire's band

Aaliyah Haughton

Jimmy King

Ronnie Caldwell

Phalin Jones

Carl Cunningham

Jape Perry Richardson

Sabine Pass

Harold David Box

Stephen Canaday

BILL CHASE

JOHN EMMA

WALLY YOHN

WALTER CLARK

Patsy Cline

Answer 3

buddy Holly

Aaliyh don't know here surname sorry

thats all i know

Answer 4

Lynard Skynard   Bob Denver The Mountain Smackers

Answer 5

Don't forget Randy Rhoads

Answer 6

buddy holly big bopper ritchie valens stevie ray vaughn randy rhodes and lynyrd skynyrd

Answer 7

Ricky Nelson

Patsy Cline

Richie Valens

Big Bopper

Buddy Holly

1/2 of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd

John Denver

Glenn Miller

Aaliyah

Reba McEntire's band

Answer 8

Aaliyah: Age 22

(born: Aaliyah Haughton, New York 16 January 1979; died Marsh Harbour, the Bahamas 25 August 2001) ,

Aaliyah was at the forefront of the Nineties' mainstream acceptance of R&B which now sees acts like Destiny's Child and 3LW go straight into the US and UK pop charts. A teen idol who scored her first transatlantic hit with "Back and Forth" in 1994 at the age of 15 and remained a chart presence for the next seven years, she went on to model for the fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger and made her acting début last year opposite the Chinese martial arts legend Jet Li in the film Romeo Must Die... The rhythm 'n' blues singer was killed in a plane crash after a video shoot in the Bahamas. She was 22.  

NASSAU, Bahamas (CNN) -- The small aircraft that crashed...on the island of Abaco, killing singer Aaliyah and eight others, was overloaded by hundreds of pounds, officials said Thursday.   The extra weight -- and the way in which it was distributed -- most likely contributed to the plane's crash shortly after takeoff, said John Frank, executive director of the Cessna Pilots' Association...Immediately after the crash Saturday at Marsh Harbour airport, airport employees told CNN that baggage handlers and the pilot of the Cessna 402 had complained before takeoff that the aircraft was overloaded with luggage, but the passengers insisted on taking everything with them.  Aaliyah (Limited Edition)

Books:  Aaliyah: An R&B Princess in Words and Pictures by Kelly Kenyatta

Aaliyah: More Than a Woman  by Christopher John Farley

Aaliyah  by Tim Footman

The Bar-Kays':

Jimmy King(b.1949; guitar), Ronnie Caldwell (b. 1948; organ), Phalin Jones (b. 1949; saxophone),

and Carl Cunningham (b. 1949; drums).  The Bar-Kays were employed as Otis Redding's backing group on tour, and the tragic plane crash in 1967, which took his life, also claimed King, Caldwell, Jones and Cunningham.   James Alexander, who fortuitously missed the flight, put a new line-up together with Ben Cauley, the sole survivor of the accident.

  

Big Bopper: Age 29

(b. Jape Perry Richardson, 24 October 1930, Sabine Pass, Texas, USA, d.3 February 1959).

After working as a disc jockey in Beaumont, Richardson won a recording contract with Mercury, releasing two unsuccessful singles in 1957. The following year, under his radio monicker The Big Bopper, he recorded the ebullient Chantilly Lace, a rock ‘n’ roll classic, complete with blaring saxophone and an insistent guitar run. Backed with the satiric The Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor, the disc was a transatlantic hit.  The follow up, Big Bopper's Wedding underlined the singer's love of novelty and proved popular enough to win him a place on a tour with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.  On 3 February 1959, a plane carrying the three stars crashed, leaving no survivors.

David Box: Age 22

(b. Harold David Box, Sulphur Springs on 11 August 1943; d. 23 October 1964)

After the death of Buddy Holly, the Crickets used various lead singers on their records. One was David Box who sang lead on the Crickets' recording of "Peggy Sue Got Married"...The song was among the last Cricket singles to be issued on Coral - and one of the very best released after Buddy died...David also worked with local band Buddy and the Kings. Buddy Groves vocal/guitar, Carl Banks bass and Bill Daniels presumably on drums. Daniels was a qualified pilot and the quartet hired a Cesna Skyhawk 172 to take them to a gig in Harris County on . The plane crashed nose first and overturned on the return flight. There were no survivers.

Stephen Canaday: Age 55

Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Former Ozark Mountain Daredevils member Stephen Canaday was killed Saturday (Sept.  25, 1999)

when the vintage airplane in which  he was riding crashed into a vacant house in Nashville. Witnesses to the crash attempted to perform CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on Canaday, 55, but he died en route to a local hospital. Canaday’s companion in the plane, computer/software programmer Rick Loudermilk, 52, was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigating officials could not immediately determine the cause of the crash but said Canaday may have been shooting low-level aerial photographs from the North American SNJ-5, a single-engine training plane from the World War II era... Canaday, 55, joined the Ozark Mountain Daredevils in 1977. More recently, he had worked at a Nashville photographic-supply store and as a tour manager for country singer Lee Roy Parnell and Nashville folk-rocker Marshall Chapman.   -- Brian Mansfield

Bill Chase: Age  39

(b. 1935;  d. 9 August 1974, Jackson, MN)

In 1974, Chase chartered a plane to take him and three band members to a performance in Jackson, MN. The weather was bad with a low ceiling, and the airport in Jackson had little communications equipment. The plane went down, but was not found until the next day. There were no survivors. - d**k Cooper    Chase's entire band lost their lives: (BILL CHASE, JOHN EMMA, WALLY   YOHN and WALTER CLARK).

Patsy Cline: Age 30

(b. Virginia Patterson Hensley,  8 September 1932, Gore, near Winchester, Virginia,  d. 5 March 1963).

Patsy's manager, Randy Hughes, was the son-in-law of Cowboy Copas. In 1963 Randy flew Patsy to Kansas City for a benefit for the widow of a country disc jockey who had died in a car crash. The return journey was hampered by storms and poor visibility. On 5 March 1963 Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Randy Hughes were killed when their plane crashed in swamped woodlands in Camden, Tennessee, 85 miles from Nashville. Identification was difficult as only Patsy's shoulders, the back of her head and right arm were in one recognizable piece. Another country star, Jack Anglin, of the duo Johnny And Jack, was killed on the way to her funeral. Patsy's single at the time of her death was, ironically, Leavin' On Your Mind.

Link to:  Patsy Cline: Original Keys for Singers: Piano/Vocal: (Sheet Music)  

Cowboy Copas: Age 49

(b. Lloyd Estel Copas, 15 July 1913, near Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA, d. 5 March 1963).

Copas was raised on a small ranch and taught himself the fiddle and guitar before he was 10 years old.  His son-in-law, Randy Hughes, also managed Patsy Cline and all three were killed, along with Hawkshaw Hawkins, in a plane crash on 5 March 1963. A few weeks later, Copas had a posthumous country hit with a record ironically entitled Goodbye Kisses.

Jim Croce: Age 30

(b. 10 January 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 20 September 1973).

Originally a university disc jockey, Croce played in various rock bands before moving to New York in 1967 where he performed in folk clubs. By 1969, he and his wife, Ingrid, were signed to Capitol Records for APPROACHING DAY. The album's failure led to Croce returning to Pennsylvania and taking on work as a truck driver and telephone engineer. Meanwhile, he continued with songwriting and, after sending demo tapes to former college friend and New York record producer, Tommy West, Croce secured a new deal with the ABC label. Croce's second album, YOU DON'T MESS AROUND WITH JIM, provided him with a US Top 10 hit in the title track and, along with Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels) helped establish Croce as a songwriter of distinction. In July 1973, he topped the US charts with the narrative Bad Bad Leroy Brown. Exactly two months later, he died in a plane crash at Natchitoches, Louisiana. when the chartered  Beechcraft D-18 snagged the top of a pecan tree during take-off. link to buy:  Jim Croce Complete

John Denver: Age 53

(b. Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., 31 December 1943, Roswell, NM,

d.12 October 1997, CA).

One of America's most popular performers during the '70s, Denver's rise to fame began when he was ‘discovered’ in a Los Angeles night club. He initially joined the Back Porch Majority, a nursery group for the renowned New Christy Minstrels but, tiring of his role there, left for the Chad Mitchell Trio where he forged a reputation as a talented songwriter.  One of his compositions, Leaving On A Jet Plane, provided an international hit for Peter, Paul And Mary, and this evocative song was the highlight of Denver's debut album, RHYMES AND REASONS.  He continued to enjoy a high profile throughout the rest of the decade and forged a concurrent acting career with his role in the film comedy OH, GOD with George Burns.  However, although Denver became an unofficial musical ambassador with tours to Russia and China, his recording became less prolific as increasingly he devoted time to charitable work and ecological interests. A San Francisco television station reported  that Denver may have crashed while trying to switch from one fuel tank to another. Both tanks were empty, KRON reported.  Denver was killed instantly in the crash of the Long-EZ experimental airplane he was piloting on October 12 , in Monterey Bay shortly after take off.  Denver, an experienced pilot, had taken delivery of the Y-shaped, futuristic looking plane just a day before the crash.    link to:   John Denver Books

Jane Dornacker: Age 39

Tubes

(b. 10/1/47, d. 10/22/86, NYC, NY)

Jane sang with the Tubes (wrote and sang their quasi-hit "Don't Touch Me There"), and the performance-art group Leila and the Snakes (late '70s San Francisco - also featuring Pearl Harbor of Explosions fame)... well regarded standup comedienne, played Nurse Murch in the movie "The Right Stuff," mostly SF Bay Area centered but moved to New York City in the early '80s to do radio. She was killed in a helicopter crash over the Hudson River while doing a live traffic report. An audio clip of the broadcast is available at http://www.ohms.com/kyuu7.htm. ~Evan Hulka

Carlos Gardel: Age 44

(Born in France 11 December 1890; Died: 24 June 1935)

Buy Gardel  

Answer 9

And of course a real biggie:  Glenn Miller.

Disappeared on a flight from the UK to France during WWII.  Possibly engulfed by bomb jettisoning from a flight of RAF Lancasters that were overhead flying in the opposite direction over the Channel.

Answer 10

theres been quite a few. some of the major ones are Ritchie Valens (La Bamba) the Big Bopper and Buddy Holly all in the same plane. Half of Lynyrd Skynyrd died in a plane crash. Stevie Ray Vaughn died in a Helicopter accident.

Answer 11

Graeme (shirley) Strachan from skyhooks, australia. helicopter crash. he was the pilot.

Answer 12

Buddy Holly

Ritchie Valens

J. P. (The Big Bopper) Richardson

All three in the same crash.

Patsy Cline

Jim Croce

Oti Redding

Some members of the Lynard Skynard band

Answer 13

All of the above, and John Denver too.