In mid-October, during the tour, Kenneth Peden, a sound technician with Lynyrd Skynyrd, said a six-foot flame was shooting from one of the engines on a flight earlier in the week from Miami to Greenville. South Carolina. Peden also stated that several members had decided to take a vote ...
Gary has been the last original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd who is still alive and performing with the band. We need to get to a airport, the closest airport youve got, sir. He was given vectors to McComb-Pike County Airport in McComb, Mississippi, which was now 17 miles behind them. I...
STREET SURVIVORS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE LYNYRD SKYNYRD PLANE CRASH, recreates the story of the ill-fated flight through the eyes of former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame memberArtimus Pyle(who narrates the film), who not only survived the pl...
Background singer, JoJo Billingsley was not on the flight. There were also several members of the band’s road crew, lighting and sound crew that survived. What caused the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash? According to the NTSB report, the tragic plane crash involving the iconic American rock band...
Skynyrd, meanwhile reformed in 1987, ostensibly to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the plane crash; the band has continued ever since, recording nine more studio albums and going through a number of number of lineup changes. Rossington — who is part of a guitarist core that included ...
Even though he suffered massive injuries in the1977 plane crashthat killed bandmates Ronnie Van Zant, Cassie and Steve Gaines, Rossington survived. After recovering, he formed the Rossington Collins Band with fellow Skynyrd guitarist Allen Collins. ...
Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crashtells the story of the ill-fated flight through the eyes of the band’s former drummer, Artimus Pyle. The musician survived the tragedy and helped pull fellow survivors from the wreckage in the moments following the crash. ...
Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crashtells the story of the ill-fated flight through the eyes of the band’s former drummer, Artimus Pyle. The musician survived the tragedy and helped pull fellow survivors from the wreckage in the moments following the crash. ...
After a bitter legal battle, drummerArtimus Pylewas finally able to tell his version ofLynyrd Skynyrd's tragicplane crashin the recent movieStreet Survivors. In a new interview, Pyle reveals that the 1977 incident that killed three of his bandmates was actually the third air crash he's survi...
Ronnie Van Zant’s bandmates were anxious as they prepared to board their leased plane at Greenville, South Carolina’s Downtown Airport on the afternoon of October 20th, 1977. And they had good reason to be:Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s rickety Convair 240, pushing 30 years old, was obviously past...