Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, his sister Cassie Gaines (one of three backing singers) and manager Dean Kilpatrick were killed in a plane crash en route from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The remaining members, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins, Billy Powell and Leon Wilkeson were seriously injured, but all recovered. The band was finished for ten years, until the survivors invited Ronnie’s younger brother Johnny to join them in a reunion concert.
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Out in the middle of nowhere Mississippi, there’s a monument to the crash. https://www.lynyrdskynyrdmonument.com/
If you’re ever driving through MS and it’s early in the day, it could be worth the short detour to go see it, maybe buy an extremely overpriced t-shirt while you’re there. It is out in confederate country so I wouldn’t stay out too late (or go without a white friend).
