[Impala64ssa]

Images at link. Let's see if any leftist conspiracy kooks are gonna say that the Fundamentalist Christians, KKK, the John Birch Society, etc. sabotaged that plane (with the gov't covering it up, of course) because they found rock 'n roll to be immoral and promoting, as they called it back then "race mixing". Or since Ritchie Valens was on the plane and he was the first Latino to make it big in RnR I wonder if la Raza, LULAC, Cong. Gutierrez or any other imbéciles will play the race card. Years later, the commies put up posters all over Times Square and Greenwich Village saying John Lennon was murdered by the CIA, so it could happen.

[bgill]

A long long time ago
I can still remember how
That music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they’d be happy for a while
But February made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn’t take one more step
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died

[DesertRhino]

Yeah, no pilot error there. A 21 year old pilot, taking off into snow and 30 mph gusting winds, at 1am, for a cross country flight over featureless terrain, without an instrument rating, carrying 3 young rock stars.

Who could ever call that pilot error?

[Southern Magnolia]

Personally, I consider the record company responsible for insisting the musicians go on a tour in the middle of winter with an unheated bus. The only reason they chartered the plane was due to freezing conditions on the tour bus.

[Dan(9698)]

I am a pilot.

The pilot is responsible for everything that happens to the airplane he is flying.

It may not be fair that a small mistake can carry a death sentence to the pilot but also to all who may be aboard, but that is reality.

He certainly is responsible for what happened.

[DesertRhino]

And he certainly wasn’t a hero. A hero would have looked at everyone and said sorry, we’ll leave in the morning, let’s go find a warm place to hang out till then.

[uncitizen]

Surprisingly they aren’t blaming climate change.

[DesertRhino]

And it’s a cheery Saturday morning. The pilot was probably a great kid. Only 21 and had his license, working on his instrument rating. Pulled that off in a small town in the 50s. And it was just a different era in aviation. That’s why we lost so many well known people top such crashes back then.

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[BeadCounter]

https://www.surfballroom.com <—— This is where Buddy Holly’s last performance was in Mason Iowa, they even have the phone he last called his wife on there and keep it preserved.

I’ve read books on him, what happened. One book called “The day the music died”.

Here was a tribute song that was written weeks after the accident, it’s a moving song. Whomever made the video messed up some in the Richie Valens pictures but that doesn’t change the original moving message of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwO8bsMKuyI

In hindsight, it is too bad they put faith in a 20, 21 year old pilot in a snow storm. That much can be said.

[cicero2k]

Patsy Cline was to die in a similar manner, four years later.

[Rockpile]

Beech Bonanza 35 with the v-tail.

[pabianice]

>>the passenger-side rudder - should have been considered

The what?

[Karl Spooner]

I remember that in those days every accident was blamed on the pilot. Even O'Hare Flight 191 was originally ruled pilot error even though one of its engines was laying on the runway.