it came out of the sky about five miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa, and slammed into the frozen earth. The right wing dug a six-inch-deep furrow for 57 feet as it disintegrated into bits of fabric and metal. The fuselage bounced hard, careening and ripping apart over the next 500 feet while the nose gear, door frame, and tail cone were all smashed loose and scattered, until what was left of the red Beechcraft B35 Bonanza finally came to rest against a barbed-wire fence at one end of a long, empty cornfield. It was just past 1 a.m. Deep inside the twisted mass was the body of the pilot. Outside lay the bodies of three young men who had been thrown from the plane at more than 100 miles per hour. They had all been killed on impact, their bodies broken, their heads smashed open. Buddy Holly, Ritchie ...
So sad! It was said that the pilot didn't have his readings right and could not tell up from down with a starless sky and
I was only nine when Buddy Holly died but my mom was young and into the music of the day and she always had the radio on. We listened to all the rockers of the 50's together. It was a fun time.
I got to see the original "CRICKETS" last summer at a free concert at LL Beans in. Good tribute show.
Yeah, several times, it's the bible for instructors, William also posthumously published a few years ago from his father's works, "America from the Air", a two part book which captures a bygone era of early aviation and also is the prolog to Stick and Rudder, being more readable for the student pilot or nonaviator, a must read also.
Hey, William wrote a good article for Vanity Fair on the precident setting Amazonian mid-air between the Legacy and 737, Click Here
He's the master of laying out complex events in laymans terms, unemotionally, while drawing metaphorical parallels to living in the world we inhabit. His past writings on the Columbia disaster, EgyptAir 990 and the Value Jet crash were equally good, you should check them out too if you haven't already.
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it came out of the sky about five miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa, and slammed into the frozen earth. The right wing dug a six-inch-deep furrow for 57 feet as it disintegrated into bits of fabric and metal. The fuselage bounced hard, careening and ripping apart over the next 500 feet while the nose gear, door frame, and tail cone were all smashed loose and scattered, until what was left of the red Beechcraft B35 Bonanza finally came to rest against a barbed-wire fence at one end of a long, empty cornfield. It was just past 1 a.m. Deep inside the twisted mass was the body of the pilot. Outside lay the bodies of three young men who had been thrown from the plane at more than 100 miles per hour. They had all been killed on impact, their bodies broken, their heads smashed open. Buddy Holly, Ritchie ...
So sad! It was said that the pilot didn't have his readings right and could not tell up from down with a starless sky and
city lights below.
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This month's AOPA magazine had a detailed account of the accident...
Safety Pilot Landmark Accidents: The day the music died
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I was only nine when Buddy Holly died but my mom was young and into the music of the day and she always had the radio on. We listened to all the rockers of the 50's together. It was a fun time.
I got to see the original "CRICKETS" last summer at a free concert at LL Beans in. Good tribute show.
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Jim, thanks for the link, good article, spatial disorientation can be a killer.
Here's a good article on spatial disorientation by William Langewiesche: The Turn
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And thank you for the Langewiesche article. The guy is a modern-day Steinbeck.
Have you read Stick and Rudder by his father?
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Yeah, several times, it's the bible for instructors, William also posthumously published a few years ago from his father's works, "America from the Air", a two part book which captures a bygone era of early aviation and also is the prolog to Stick and Rudder, being more readable for the student pilot or nonaviator, a must read also.
Hey, William wrote a good article for Vanity Fair on the precident setting Amazonian mid-air between the Legacy and 737, Click Here
He's the master of laying out complex events in laymans terms, unemotionally, while drawing metaphorical parallels to living in the world we inhabit. His past writings on the Columbia disaster, EgyptAir 990 and the Value Jet crash were equally good, you should check them out too if you haven't already.
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