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The Air Indiana Flight 216 crash occurred on December 13, 1977, at 19:22 CST, when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, the Evansville Purple Aces, crashed on takeoff at the Evansville Regional Airport in Evansville, Indiana.
The memorial plaque reads: On Nov. 14, 1970, 75 people died in the worst sports-related air tragedy in U.S. history, when a Southern Airways DC-9 crashed into a hillside nearby. The victims included 37 Marshall University football players, 9 coaches and administrators, 25 fans and air crew of 5.
7 gru 2017 · Ninety seconds after take-off the plane crashed, killing 29, including the basketball team, head coach, 3 student managers, athletic business manager, UE comptroller, sports information director...
Though 30 years have passed, many Evansvillians remember what they were doing on the night of Dec. 13, 1977, when they heard about the plane crash that killed the hometown basketball team. Wallace Graves was enjoying a performance at Wheeler Concert Hall; Patrick Wathen was sitting down to supper; John Althoff was watching television.
Entire team (save one player) and coaching staff, along with members of the press, boosters, and plane crew, are all killed in crash shortly after take-off from Evansville en route to a game against Middle Tennessee State University. The sole team member who did not board the plane died in a car crash two weeks later.
13 gru 2023 · (WEHT) – 46 years ago, a chartered DC-3 airplane carrying the University of Evansville men’s basketball team crashed upon takeoff. On Wednesday, a service was held at Memorial Plaza on UE’s ...
10 cze 2014 · One of the largest crowds ever turned out Friday, Nov. 14, for the annual memorial service to remember the 1970 plane crash that killed 75 football players, coaches, staff, supporters and...
